Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critical Communist sympathizer," has an extremely pretty wife who is a member of the Socialist Party. Last summer they toured Russia. Last week critical Corliss told a meeting of 500 Manhattan radicals to "Buy Soviet 10% bonds! They are the safest bonds on the market today. . . . The once stupid Russian peasant louts are now replaced by as intelligent a people as I have ever met. They are alert to world events, politics, modern thought. True, they have a food crisis and many of them haven't shoes but their devotion is lifting them up to a different plane." Unlike...
...arranged in accordance with the meretricious morality of Will Hayes, and the acting is too often a mere exposition of secondary sexual characters. When genuine works of art are remodeled to conform to the movie-goers taste, the author's subtleties and fine touches are deleted in a surpassingly stupid manner. This was only too painfully obvious to those who saw the screen version of "An American Tragedy" or who watched the final scene in the Hollywood conception of "A Farewell to Arms," where Lieutenant Henry grasps Katherine's corpse in his arms, looks out of the window...
...case of Governor Murray, it may be said that the incident is another proof that he is miserably unfit for the position he holds. Governor Murray is a distinguished specimen of an all too frequent type of politician. Neither stupid nor unenlightened himself, he has not hesitated to pander on several pander on several occasions to the trivial and the vicious aspects of his electorate. This is not the first example of his interference in the affairs of the University of Oklahoma beyond the proper limits. His conduct while a possible nominee of the Democratic party was that...
...baby. Cinema's ethical code had in this case the effect of prompting the ingenuity of Scenarists Glazer & Garrett. The scene at a Milan hospital in which a priest mumbles a marriage ceremony adds nothing to the story but it is an effective incident in itself. The only stupid touch in the picture comes in the final moment after the tragedy of Catherine's death - when Lieutenant Henry picks up her corpse, looks out of the window at an armistice celebration and loudly remarks: "Peace!" After this comes an unreasonable photograph of flying pigeons...
...that Maggie Warren is not. Lizzie Praskins has the face, manners and characteristics of a rat and she starts a run on the Warren bank by squeaking for her money out of a desire to be troublesome. The run is disastrous because young John Warren has been so stupid as to lend the bank's best bonds to parties who do not wish to give them back. All this reduces Maggie Warren to noble penury. She sells her house and furnishings, goes with her dog, Mutt, to board at Mrs. Praskins'. W7hen humiliated into leaving she makes...