Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With great tears rolling down his stupid face he explained that, placed in charge of a Soviet collective farm in the region of Dalmatov, he had racked his brains to find some way of turning what looked like an unavoidable deficit into a profit. "I wanted to make a g-g-good showing for the glory of the p-p-proletariat!" sobbed Nikolai...
Significance: Dictator Josef Stalin is now easing up on his stern program of forcing independent peasants onto the Government's collective farms; examples are beginning to be made of over-zealous patriots like stupid Nikolai Konekov...
...initiated, ordered to take ''treatments," scraped about the ears, hexed, advised to leave the country, psychoanalyzed, fiddled with by medicine men, gypsies, witches, etc., etc. When put upon the trail of a suspect, Otto Fichl uses his native German accent, saying "I vunder vat is der trouble." Stupid in appearance, equipped with a worker's badge, it is his business to be the dupe of any faker. After paying "Dr." Kejna $5 for telling him that he needed $168 worth of dentistry, Otto Fichl became worried, visited a reputable dentist...
Broadway Shadows is a painfully stupid play which Playwright Willard Earl Simmons has completely inundated with the contents of the old hokum bucket. Surrounded by ineptitudes of property, dialog and direction, the hero is purported to be a Social Registerite. He has left home to live in a $100-a-month "tenement" near Broadway because his rich father, who looks like a holidaying subway guard, believes his son to have raised a check. The young socialite at last finds happiness by marrying another inmate of the apartment house whose daughter-acted by Baby Marie Polizzotto-bakes a cake throughout...
This criticism agrees exactly with conclusions reached by the MacDonald Government's Trade Mission to South America (TIME, Sept. 23), which has issued a report flaying English manufacturers as too stupid and stubborn to make what South Americans want to buy, and secondly flaying English diplomats as too stiff, superior, condescending and ungracious to be of any use in promoting trade. When this report was about to be issued the office of a worldwide press agency in London received advance copies in time to mail them to South America before the release date, but were absolutely forbidden to mail...