Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queen Caroline's real genius, however, lay in the unobtrusive management of her pompous, stupid consort. When they came to the throne in 1727, she teamed with fat, jovial Sir Robert Walpole, then Prime Minister, to keep the King in line and to strengthen his Stuart-threatened dynasty. She even gave the benefit of her wiles to the miniaturist Frederick Zincke, whom she secretly warned "to make the King's picture young, not above 25." Flattered, George bade the painter "employ all your time in pictures for me, for I will take them...
...Times's Publisher Sulzberger, TIME'S apologies for a stupid slip: the editorial referred to appeared in the New York...
...little protection Lavinia needed. In the end, when her witlessness and her ability to muddle through had proved a match for each other, Mrs. Brandon looked at her lovely hands and said to her latest admirer: "I was married very young and knew very little. It's a stupid story...
...TIME prints in its issue of May 29 the most ludicrous and stupid account of the Royal Visit that I ever have had the unpleasant opportunity of reading...
...Conservative design habits account for the curiously compromised appearance of so many PWA housing projects. Behind these and other errors stood a stupid officialdom which refused to recognize the enormous progress already made elsewhere. . . . From the first group [of U. S. H. A. designs] it is gratifyingly clear . . . that we may expect projects surpassing those of PWA both in efficiency and quality of design...