Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coming back from a wardrobe fitting to the Beverly Hills Hotel, she discovered that $16,000 worth of her diamonds and other jewels had been confiscated by state agents as security against $14,200 in California taxes that she has owed since 1959. It was all a "silly, stupid misunderstanding," insisted La Lollo, but she lost no time setting matters straight with a draft on her bank account in Switzerland. "What is so incredible to me," she murmured, "is that the tax people wouldn't believe that I have assets...
Bannockburn broke the English hold in Scotland. In 1327, the stupid Edward was at last deposed-and somewhat later dispatched with a red-hot poker that was rammed up his rectum. In 1328, the two powers signed a treaty that recognized Scotland as an independent state and Bruce as its rightful monarch. The next year, "Guid King Robert" died of leprosy. His work was done-indeed, done better than he knew. Three centuries later, in 1603, his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson, James Stewart, was crowned King of England...
...hours the Senators permitted Perez to prattle on. Finally their patience wore thin. When Perez declared that "there is a Communist plan" behind the bill, Illinois Republican Everett M. Dirksen, one of its chief architects, made him eat his words. "That," snapped Senator Dirksen, "is about as stupid a statement as has ever been uttered in this committee room." Cowed, Perez asked that his comment be stricken from the record...
...facial tic, every finger flick, means something. A thumb jabbed at the mouth: "Waiter, bring some wine." A semi-rotating hand with thumb and forefinger up: "No can do." One raised finger: "Probably." Palm open: "Probably not." Tapping the center of the forehead: "Do you think I'm stupid?" Extended fingers slowly rubbing the underchin: "I couldn't care less...
...ravaged beauty when the book begins. Bred to wealth, she despises Sam for making her live poor and for playing the "little tin Jesus." She spends her life cursing him, beating her babies, kissing them better, robbing their piggy banks, fighting off loan sharks, sneaking off to see a stupid lover and viciously cheating at solitaire. She ages disastrously. Halfway through the book she is "a black-eyed, feverishly rouged hag with blazing yellow skin" and a mind that is slowly coming apart...