Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death cell at Lethbridge, Schwalb said: "Canada will never hang us. It was so stupid of you people to spend all that money on trials for us, because we are going to get off." But Schwalb was wrong. One midnight last week the guards marched him twelve steps to the gallows, strapped him hand & foot. Schwalb stiffened to attention, and shouted in English: "My führer, I follow thee!" Then they slipped a noose around his neck and pulled it tight. The trap was sprung. It was the first time a prisoner of war had ever been executed...
...press campaign is dangerous not because the American reader is stupid. Almost in all cases he is more intelligent than the newspaper he reads. . . . But how should he know what is going on in Russia...
...Unitarian writers] thinks that a realistic view of human nature easily 'excuses personal and individual inaction as well as acquiescence in the idea of dictatorship.' . . . Most of the continental resistance churches were informed by a dialectical theology. . . . It is stupid and malicious to deny the moral and religious heroism of continental Christianity in fighting the evils of Nazism...
Should an eleven-year-old girl wear lipstick? Ten-year-old Buddy Robinson gave his considered answer: "No . . . because they look ridiculous." Art Stone, 11, thought little girls who wore children's clothes and grownups' lipstick were "stupid." "It's just as silly for little boys to wear long pants," countered Francey Aransohn with biting, ten-year-old derision. Two other girls added their comments, and Juvenile Jury was off to a provocative start...
...moppetry. He originated and conducts the Jury, made up of average youngsters whose responses to questions are unpredictable, forthright. Barry neither hogs the mike nor acts like a benevolent uncle. By putting his charges at ease before each broadcast, he gets some delightful reactions: quick indignation for obviously stupid questions, squealing giggles to unexpected answers, busy babbling when two or more youngsters try to talk at the same time, as they frequently do. Hoping to catch an even wider audience than the encyclopedia Quiz Kids, Juvenile Jury strictly limits its questions to fields interesting to almost all children...