Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professional wrestlers, the grunting, groaning showpieces of the most thoroughly faked U.S. sport, are maligned men, according to Dr. Charles Davis, physician for the California State Athletic Commission. Wrestling fans are apt to picture their hippodroming heroes as gross, stupid, out of condition, and in general, slobs. Not so, says Dr. Davis-at least not so on the fitness side. Thanks to continual training for weekly and sometimes nightly bouts, says Davis, wrestlers keep in the pink of physical condition. What's more, many of them are in good mental shape as well. Last week, after five years...
Taft spokesman Joseph Brown, a former Attorney-General of Massachusetts, spent the large part of his time in blasting the Truman administration for its "stupid, vascillating policy...
...example in every way. Fosdick soon posed a terrible problem to Abner. During an economy drive on the police force, Fosdick was told by his chief that unless he married, he would be axed along with all the other bachelors. Since a "scientific aptitude test" proved Detective Fosdick too stupid for any other job, he grudgingly married his hatchet-faced girl friend Prudence ("ugh!") Pimpleton.* Abner, true to his pledge, had to follow suit. However, he was so confident a miracle would save him that he did not even bother to get out of bed on the morning when Daisy...
Such puerile and hysterical reactions and moves as those occasioned by the stupid "cross-buring" incident, beside whatever use could be made of them by a skillful communist propaganda on the go to get us at any price, can only be very harmful to the efforts of men who are, all over this country doing their best to make us "better men in a better world." As such, it is nothing that any American, either by birth or by choice, should feel very proud of. Henry J. Maubert Harvard Business School
...tries to compensate for an inability to change her facial expression by changing her costume as frequently as possible. Mature simply wiggles his ears, whether hanging by his hands from an iron bar twenty feet off the ground or watching singer Russell sulk beside a piano. Hoagy Carmichael looks stupid as a troubadour-hillbilly-cupid type, and Vincent Price looks just plain tired...