Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said: ''The body of cricket lies in England but the ashes are in Australia." That was in 1876; a cricket joke lasts even longer than a test match. The fact that Englishmen make occasional quips about cricket, the leisurely routine in which the tests proceed, lead only stupid aliens to believe that the game is not serious. On the special car in which the Australian side traveled in England, a sign said: "Australian Cricket Team. Please Do Not Enter. Do Not Speak to the Players." A London correspondent sent to Melbourne to return with the team, came back...
...Hermann Wilhelm Göring. After grilling perspiring "Auwi," whom he scared half to death, General Göring kicked him out of the Nazi Party and out of the Storm Troops in which he had been a group commander with the stinging words: "Dummkopf! dunderhead! you are too stupid...
...means stupid, Col. von Papen begged his guards to take him down to the Chancellory. There the Vice Chancellor sent up his card, "I wish to see the Chancellor...
...weeks ago the Storm Troopers based their demand on the obscure stabbing of one of their district leaders by a Stahlhelm official in Pomerania. When Herr Hitler refused last week to dissolve the Stahl helm and accorded Col. Seldte a friendly audience Berlin Storm Troop leaders were stupid enough to mutter openly against Der Führer and arouse the suspicions of General Göring's Secret Police...
...this $1,713,000 had been illegally borrowed from 14 depositors in 1931 and 1932, said the Government. Harriman counsel maintained in court that the false entries by which these unauthorized borrowings were concealed had been "curious and stupid" mistakes committed by Mr. Harriman's underlings without his knowledge, "like a college prank played upon a teacher...