Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start in Southern Alaska's Matanuska Valley (TIME, May 6, 1935 et seq.). On a set devised by Donald Oenslager which has a huge, improbable limb of some coniferous tree hanging from the proscenium, hopeful men, women & children arrive singing, yapping, gossiping, making acquaintances. Because a bullying, stupid army man named Hodges makes a blunder, the colonists put in three weeks' labor building their cabins the wrong way, are ordered to tear them down and rebuild according to specifications. Ill-humor reaches a peak with a shortage of fruit, vegetables and salt; a raid on the commissary...
...house Henry Ford has set up in Greenfield Village and labeled the Foster homestead is a very stupid and quite inexcusable fraud...
...Rich and stupid Lala Palooza set out vigorously to please all lovers of oldtime funnypaper slapstick. She started her comic career by consulting Professor Zeero, a turbaned faker, who advised her to marry an impostor named Senor Gonzales. When Lala Palooza's lazy brother, Vincent Doolittle, opposed the match he was thrown through a door by Hives, his sister's supercilious chauffeur. Thrilled to her deep core, Lala Palooza accepted Gonzales and this week, in the course of reducing to please him, she blacks both Professor Zeero's eyes with a dumbbell, drops heavy weights on Brother...
...Little team. No Mather how much the press talks Army can't Skaer Crimson. Harvard goal-line is a Hartline to cross, but when the local backs have wiggled their Hipps across the goal and Preston to another win, Ohman what fun in the Howell Lockerhauser (Dillon Field House, stupid!). Harvard 13, Army...
...freedom to do as one pleases results in enormous waste; much that is done is misdirected, much is merely stupid, some little works ill on the community at large but even this is usually borne with tolerance. In greeting the latest addition to Harvard's ranks the spokesmen for the University were not considering these abuses of freedom. They spoke in feeling tones of the waste involved, not in doing as one pleased, but in not doing at all--in loafing through college, accomplishing nothing beyond satisfying the few requirements asked by the Dean's office at midyears...