Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marquis has, after all, a wonderful ability for characterization. No matter with whom he is dealing he does so sympathetically. Mister Splain, a village drunk, a backslider, chicken thief; Cherry Saltus, the stupid, over-sexed girl who turns the town upside down by her adventures; Jim Shale, the grave-digger who is guilty of being an unconfessed free-thinker--these people the author neither reproaches nor encourages. He merely shows them to you as he understands them, with all the power of his insight...
...That the British Army is as stupid as one would be led to believe from the fact that only by the suicidal bungling of Gunga Din was the entire command saved from walking into a death trap...
...Court's opinion was a copyright case with a unique twist. In 1932 Pearson and Allen put out their second book, More Merry-Go-Round, which contained, among other things, the statements that Justice James Clark McReynolds was "Apparently . . . both stupid [and] lazy," and that "for a man of his sheer ugliness of disposition he has come far." Also in the book was a sketch of Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills, much of which was lifted from a defunct magazine called The Washingtonian. Pearson had edited The Washingtonian for two issues, and obtained permission from Rixey Smith, author...
...with comic texts. Because Italians had greeted his first opera (Cenerentola) with catcalls and cabbages, Composer Wolf-Ferrari got most of his later works firsted outside Italy. But last week Milanese operagoers had a chance to chortle over a Wolf-Ferrari first. The new opera: La Nina Boba (The Stupid Girl), based on an old Spanish comedy by Lope de Vega...
...with the story. Fredric March, as Sam Wye, expert detective, is put on the trail of Joan Bennett, murderess, because of his peculiar fascination for beautiful women. Constantly harassed by Ann Sothern who, as "Dr. Livingston," easily walks away with the acting honors, and Ralph Bellamy, as an incredibly stupid detective, he traces her half way around the world and, of course, falls madly in love with her once she is caught. A rather unconvincing happy ending is the only weak note in the entire production...