Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scarcely anyone believed German Finance Minister Hermann Dietrich last week when he hotly declared that his secretary, stupid, had taken from his desk and given to the famed Berliner Tageblatt an article "neither written nor ratified [signed] by His Excellency...
...similar devices will not enjoy The Life of the Party. It is a slapstick feature with Winnie Lightner and Irene Delroy as a pair of golddiggers who are discharged from a music store, raid a dressmaking establishment, and go to Havana looking for kind old men. It is stupid stuff, yet funny. Best line: a horse-racing Colonel (Charles Butterworth), seeing his entry turn around and run the wrong way when a black cat crosses the track: "Ah, the pity...
...side of the fence stands the administration, convinced of its innocence, despite the fact that virtually no one is willing to issue an absolutely clean bill of health. As the CRIMSON pointed out continually last year, the University's policy has been at best a miserly, penny-pinching, and stupid one throughout. Out of it all, though, came the promise to investigate the whole employment situation thoroughly. Why has there been so much delay? If there is good and adequate reason why hasn't the public been kept informed of developments along these lines; and, if, as Lamont's letter...
...Older politicians] cannot eternally bluff and befool the electorate, for it is neither as stupid nor as avaricious as the pre-War generation imagines. If the real facts of the case are properly presented to them they will know what...
Viscount Rothermere is 62, Benito Mussolini 47, Adolf Hitler 41. The more the "Hearst of England" thought about Youth last week the more enthusiastic he became. Herr Hitler, he declared, has made only one mistake: "His Jew-baiting is a stupid survival of medieval prejudice" (TIME, Aug. 25 & Sept...