Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interpretation this is the spirit of the soil, mystical, but nourishing and real. In a materialistic psychology the observer might merely comment that the hinds realize that in prosperity or dearth, fair weather or foul, their lands will feed them and save them from the evils to which their stupid incompetence would lead in harsher circumstances...
...speeches had to be made, one to keep Nazi enthusiasm at the correct state of effervescence, another to pacify foreign opinion. To serve the first, Handsome Adolf made use of his old punching bag, Jewry, not so stupid a move in view of the active anti-Semitism in Austria, Czecho- slovakia, Poland, as it seemed to Britain...
...point of view if not in construction. But where The Silver Cord impeached only one miserable old lady for her exaggerated interest in her sons. Another Language shows the more complicated problems that can arise when an entire family of spineless offspring falls under the ugly domination of a stupid, whining matriarch. With two or three exceptions, old Mrs. Hallam (Louise Closser Hale), her sons and her daughters-in-law are as genuinely disagreeable a tribe as the cinema has ever dared exhibit to its audiences. Victor Hallam (Robert Montgomery) and his pretty young wife (Helen Haves) get back from...
...slate blue, New York yawns, Banana vendors in Second Avenue push their carts through streets littered with humanity's debris, as Park Avenue tumbles into scented beds. Tugs hoot in the harbor, trains leave, planes arrive, the subway roars and the never ending round feverishly swings toward the stupid frenzied pitch of noon...
December was hateful and the squalling brat always woke up at six o'clock in the morning and had to be quieted. He walked the floor thinking of all the damned stupid calls he would have to make. He couldn't find a sharp razor blade and his eyes smarted. He cut himself painfully on the lip, and couldn't find a shoe-horn. The coffee always tasted stale the way he made it, and he away fried the eggs too long so that they were greasy and brown. The morning paper wouldn't stay propped up against the sugar...