Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stage for her work in Sapho, a play she picked in 1900 because she thought it was romantic and beautiful for a love-sick bumpkin to carry a lush, mournful harlot upstairs to bed (see cut). The U. S. Press, on the other hand, decided it was shameless, stupid or funny. Miss Nethersole, a onetime governess, was tried in Manhattan on a charge of committing a public nuisance, was easily acquitted. Comedians Weber & Fields put on a burlesque of the stair-mounting scene called Sapolio. Gelett Burgess wrote a doggerel...
...refrains from buying the Boston American to avoid such biased and stupid criticisms but it would seem that the spirits of Hearst and the Liberty League had entered even the august walls of Harvard and had prostituted the heretofore sane and unprejudiced editorial policy of the Crimson to their purposes...
...bombing raids did have one expected result. At a secret chieftains' meeting enraged Emperor Haile Selassie finally agreed that the time had come to meet the Italians in open battle, let it be known that he would hurry north to lead 600,000 men against Marshal Badoglio. Stupid indeed was the announcement of the Italian embassy in London in the face of dozens of eye-witness accounts...
...tell Demos that it was not being Democratic. "I have been a little anxious as a Democrat," said the Tory Leader at Leeds, "that the right of free speech has been denied to my friend MacDonald. . . . This shouting down of people and refusing to hear arguments ... is more than stupid. It is bad." Demos continued, however, to boo Stanley's friend Ramsay off the boards and the only speech Mr. MacDonald was able to finish last week he made in a soundproof broadcasting studio at Newcastle. Beside himself with worry, the pathetic Scot seemed to forget that...
Such blind attacks are both stupid and futile. It is true that many of the laws enacted by the administration are of doubtful constitutional validity. In the Schecter and Panama Oil Cases the Supreme Court nullified acts which embodied some of the fundamental political principles of the current regime. But this does not lead to the necessary implications that all of the acts are invalid or that the administration is deliberately trying to submerge the Constitution...