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Word: stupidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Butler's campaign treasurer, Baltimore Attorney Cornelius P. Mundy, was one witness who disagreed with Tankersley. Said Mundy: the composite picture was "stupid, puerile and in bad taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unpretty Picture | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...bonds, although the Washington. Times-Herald and some other papers thought it fit to print. Wrote Peg: "Any corporation . . . promoting the purchase of Government bonds on the pretense that such bonds are good investments, is either a party to a confidence game or a victim of stupid management. In either case I am not kidded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pegging the Dollar | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...harsh, was asked last week to take a look at a copy of a movie magazine called Film India, picked up by Producer Ken McEl-downey while making a film in India. One review is headlined: "Jugnu-a Dirty, Disgusting, Vulgar Picture." Sample text: "The entire affair is damn stupid and annoying. As for the players, Nur Jehan makes an utter fool of herself as ... the college girl . . . Her fat face refuses to move, and her song gestures provoke only revulsion and ridicule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fearless Critic | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...police court for booking, the players seemed shamed and remorseful. That part of the story was grimly familiar, too. Said Prosecutor Hogan, whose men had been working on the case for seven weeks: "I fervently wish that any person who might be so tempted could have seen these stupid and dishonest young men as they admitted their guilt. Tears, remorse, self-reproach and scalding thoughts of the perpetual heartache and disgrace ... all of this was too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Money | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...acts. The last two-thirds of the play contains some of the dreariest, and generally unfunniest talk imaginable. Every once in a while a funny line comes along, but the dullness of the rest of the dialogue is stupefying. Miss Bel Geddes' lines consist of a string of incredibly stupid questions, each of which exasperates Mr. Nelson anew. This is something short of rippling dialogue...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Playgoer | 2/21/1951 | See Source »

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