Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pall Mall: "Stupid, too long, repetitious; tiresome and unconvincing...
...Brave, stupid Lord Cardigan is remembered nowadays only by the button-up woolen sweater he wore in the Crimea...
...medical school dean admitted, however, that the A.M.A. is governed largely through small cliques, that many of its leaders are misguided, and that "its recent public relations policy has been stupid...
...done nothing else, it has proved to many an American that he has a wonky (feeble) vocabulary. Confronted by too many x's or z's, he is apt to be a coof (blockhead), and left with an excess of vowels, he can appear downright dowf (stupid). Last week help came from the colleges, in the form of a special lexicon called What's That Word? (The Times Press, Wakefield, R.I.; 40?). Compiled by two veteran theme correctors-Martha Wright of the University of Massachusetts and Tony Hofford of the University of Rhode Island-the lexicon...
...itself demeaned by an overanxious huckster . . . The real blind fault lies with the film biz, which lets an outsider take over the Academy Awards on the world's best-selling medium. Oscar night should find pictures being sold-not cars oversold ... If the film biz should continue its stupid failure to sponsor its own event, then the Academy . . . must take steps to hold sponsors in line...