Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patted the terrier affectionately; 2) was speaker at a dinner of 500 women conferees on the Cause and Cure of War, told them: "I believe any one who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide, but most people don't think. . . . How deadly stupid we are. . . ."; 3) turned over her regular press conference to Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey who told the disappointed newshawks how female consumers can complain to the NRA about the cost of what they buy and to Miss Mary W. Dewson of the Women's Division of the Democratic National...
...first Fear was banned by Soviet authorities as counterrevolutionary. Later its production was permitted as part of the U. S. S. R.'s self-criticism plan. Last week it received its first performance in the U. S., not on Broadway, where producers had been, too stupid to see its merits, but at the Vassar College Experimental Theatre at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Translated by two Vassar seniors and their Professor Nikander Sterlsky, Fear was acted by a cast recruited from students and faculty. Ivan Ilich Borodin was Vassar's own bald-headed president. Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken-an experienced...
...Fatuous, a. 1. Silly; stupid; foolish; blandly inane;-often with a sense of complacency...
...Desert from Texas, Charley Chase greets Laurel & Hardy when they arrive from California by whacking them with a paddle. He invites them to his table and puts in a long distance call for his sister in Los Angeles. who turns out to be Hardy's wife. Stupid Charley Chase does not know that he has nearly precipitated a domestic crisis. He plants a fat wallet on the floor, continues to paddle arriving Sons of the Desert when they stoop to pick it up. This trick he considers a "darb." In Sons of the Desert, Charley Chase makes his first...
...assertions made on the labels, is not distilled at all but is made by mixing alcohol, water, and some sort of flavoring. When it is possible to make one's own gin by the same process for about forty cents a quart, to buy the manufactured product is simply stupid...