Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expert golfer, Funnyman Hardy has won 24 cups and two gold medals; nonetheless, he is fat and soft-looking. Laurel is thin and pale, speaks with a low-grade London accent. Funnyman Laurel seems to be the more stupid of the two, but not by very much. In Pardon Us, the teacher in the prison school asks him how many times 3 goes into 9. Laurel's answer: "Three times-and two left over." Hardy's answer: "He's wrong-there's only one left over...
...pick the most reactive mice or chickens or dogs by the method we use today to pick our college students and by which we retain them. . . . Co-education is not safe at the present time. . . . Most of the problems of our American students arise from unwise or stupid use of their leisure time...
...rural education is not improved, the ambitious will refuse to stay in the country. "Only the stupid will be left. We shall then have accomplished the calamitous job of making the American farmer a peasant." (Governor George Henry Dern of Utah...
Confessions of a Co-ed (Paramount) is an excessively stupid little production which serves no apparent purpose except to belittle the talents of Cinemactress Sylvia Sidney who is featured in it. She appears as a college student bedazzled by a classmate (Phillips Holmes) whose toothy smiles will seem to audiences less seductive than benign. When he seduces and deserts her, she marries...
...virtue or vice. . . . Women are frauds because they pretend to be the artistic sex, which is untrue, since there are no really great feminine poets and artists, while women musicians spend their time playing and singing music written by men. . . . Education exists to prevent people from being vulgar, stupid and ignorant." On one occasion, lecturing to his students, he proved irrefutably that the Almighty is an Old Etonian. When Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford visited England in 1923 and expressed a desire to visit Eton, Dr. Alington said: "Pickford? Fairbanks? Who are they?" Dr. Alington says that by his bedside...