Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overzealous persons included the entire Japanese gendarmery, directly subordinate to tut-tutting Lieut.-General Araki. Japanese reporters, calling at offices of the gendarmery, had their worst fears confirmed, rushed off to concoct new American Spy Extras. Spies' Report To Tokyo last week Japanese spies, ever industrious but often stupid, carried what they said was a copy of the League of Nation's secret Report on Manchuria, drafted at a cost of more than $400,000 by dyspeptic Lord Lytton's Commission (TIME, Sept. 5). Tokyo papers carried a 200-word summary of the 400-page report...
...preposterous that in Horse Feathers Groucho should be cast as a college president and Zeppo as an abnormally stupid undergraduate who has spent twelve years in one class. Zeppo is the only Marx who has enjoyed the advantages of a high school education. Mrs. Marx, eager to train her children for the stage, saved money for Chico's piano lessons. Soon he was able enough to play in cheap cinema theatres. Harpo, two years younger than Chico, looked exactly like him. He could play two tunes on the piano. They enabled him to defraud theatre managers who had hired...
Rare until recently has been the cinema heroine who preferred the stupid poor man to the bright city fellow. The viewpoint of The Purchase Price is simple and masculine. It advertises the virtue of hard work and loyalty. Good shot: the couple sow ing wheat on the prairie...
Every seventh person in the U. S. should be sterilized because he is stupid, crazy or going crazy. California has already unsexed 7,500 of its inhabitants. Twenty-six other States and one Canadian Province allow the same procedure. Let the other 21 states follow suit...
...thing for the Mexican Federal Government to expropriate property belonging to foreigners. But suddenly last week the whole Press of Mexico City joined in pointing out that for a mere Mexican state to snatch gringo capitalists' belongings is quite another thing, stupid and unconstitutional. Prominently the great independent daily El Universal featured an editorial from the New York Herald Tribune remarking how wrong it was for Governor Bartolome Vargas Lugo of the State of Hidalgo to seize a $300,000 cement plant from its British owners (TIME, June 6). For once it seemed that Wall Street and Mexico City...