Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bond also denied a statement attributed to him that "it never entered my mind that such a thing could happen at Harvard. I know now that it was no more than a stupid, vicious prank. It wasn't intended actually to scare us--just to remind...
...editorial entitled "Ivy League Stupid to Cut Spring Football," the Daily Princeton said yesterday that "out of season practice aided amateurism," and called the abolition of spring practice "little more than an attempt to gild the Ivy League's amateur lily...
Last week the Hamburg city council took pity on Private Schleicher, and passed a special legislative act granting him full pardon for everything. But bitterness had entered the sack's sad soul. "I'm going to spend my life," he swore, "fighting the stupid red tape which is entangling every German...
Shields's choice placed an almost unbearable burden on semi-retired Schroeder, and it ignored the man who, on the basis of his Wimbledon and Australian championships, is generally considered the U.S.'s No. 1 player. Dick Savitt, who had been blasted earlier by Shields for his "stupid" play, promptly sounded off: "I still think the deal was arranged before we ever left America. I've been beating Ted in practice...
...Ariane Allen Ross asked a Manhattan court for separation and alimony from craggy Editor Harold Ross of The New Yorker. His "mental cruelty," charged Mrs. Ross, who graduated from college a Phi Beta Kappa at 17, took several turns. Among them: calling her a "stupid, mediocre, banal bore." Furthermore, he refused to take her on social calls because he said her "stupidity, boring chatter and lack of poise embarrassed him and injured his reputation...