Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston audiences brainless? (Enter Mr. Dixon's practical nature.) Oh, they're not so stupid, and a stupid audience is probably the most painful thing I know. (Mr. Dixon's frankness returns.) No, I should say that the Army intelligence tests are too generous." Here the conversation followed a tangent into the merits of a Harvard education, but the actor's knowledge of literature exceeded that of the reporter, who departed, leaving the former before his glaring mirror, which might not have been as brief as the candle...
...effort to prevent what it called "a reversion to the silliness of a past era," an anti-rally committee was formed yesterday. In its platform the committee stated, "This committee is form- ed for the protection of Harvard Indifference. It feels that pep meetings and other stupid exhibitions are more suited to colleges whose pinciple claim to glory is football excellence. Harvard need not imitate her inferiors. Let us not revert to the silliness of a past era nor descend to the level of the jerkwater. Let us remain gentlemen, and let Harvard remain a place above such callowness." This...
...satisfy Carl Laemmle Jr. The invisible man has already realized that he must not operate after meals until his food has been transparently digested and that he must never go out in the rain lest water, collecting on the tip of his vague nose, betray his presence. He is stupid enough, none the less, to go to sleep in a barn one snowy night. When he comes out a posse of policemen shoot him in his tracks...
...Margaret Sullavan, with plenty of savoir and no little wissen. Miss Sullavan shows herself a capable mime. She has a certain un-Holly-woodian freshness about her, a spontaneity found all too seldom in screen stars. She delivers her lines with sparkling zest, and can look and without looking stupid. Only on the deathbed scene does she become a bit wearying. Her face is just pretty--not beautiful, but attractive. her figure is, of course, flawless, and she wears clothes as they should be worn. The stars are well backed up by Billie Burke and Reginald Denny...
...Blumenthal, producer) takes place on a crack British sailing ship, becalmed when news of the 1914 declaration of War is signaled by a passing liner. A drag-out fight has already flared between the ranting bully of a captain (Colin Clive) and his admirable first mate (John Buckler). Criminally stupid or incredibly irresponsible, the cause of the fight is the captain's wife, the owner's daughter (Rose Hobart), whom the mate once hoped to marry. The two biggest racial groups in the crew are British and German, next biggest Scandinavians and "greasers." Audiences were ready to expect...