Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army & Navy top commanders who had grown fat and stupid in peacetime service, or who were unable to comprehend the meaning...
...seemed ridiculous for "Happy" French, a photographer, to keep on working for Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He had found a way to make three times the money in one-tenth the time. Anyway, he was tired of being chased out on all sorts of assignments by "them stupid bastards on the city desk." Said he: "I should be shooting eight-foot hollyhocks." So he walked into Managing Editor Ed Stone's office and quit. P-I staffers threw a party for him, and the management gave him a wrist watch. Even "them stupid bastards" were sorry...
...place," he bawled, with a baleful glare at Anthony Eden in Churchill's seat. "He [Churchill] is the father of all these troubles," added Ernie, skipping clean over five years of warm wartime comradeship. "This nation today is paying a terrible price for the stupid, insane action taken at that time...
...Governor Caldwell did not condone the shooting but denounced it as "a crime" and a "disgraceful occurrence." As a result of his special investigation, he blamed "the stupid inefficiency" of the local sheriff-but "stupidity and ineptitude are not sufficient grounds for the removal of an elected official by the Governor...
This breaks the literary canon that flippancy about death is indecent. It also cracks a lot of other time-honored conventions: the eccentric, all-knowing detective, the stupid Dr. Watson, stupendous examples of deduction, the contest between evil and the law, the contest of wits between reader and author (whodunit) -not to mention the sealed room and other elaborate means of murder. Sometimes it very nearly gets rid of plot itself...