Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London who suggested someone ought to write Paul's life, Biographer Eslanda admitted she was trying to, had made several attempts already. But, put in Paul: "She thinks I'm a little tin angel with no faults at all, and so of course the book is stupid, uninteresting and untrue...
...writes: "I am of the opinion that if many of the associate and junior professors in English were to try it there would be 50 per cent, of failures, just as the result hovers around that figure today of the sophomores. This English examination is outrageously difficult--stupid questions by writers of text-books who are ignorant of the limitations of the average youth. Why, after a semester of study, dig up questions that flunk 50 or 60 per cent, of the class...
...Most certainly there was. He was an Edinburgh doctor under whom I studied. He had an uncanny gift of drawing large inferences from small observations. When I tried to draw a detective, naturally I thought of Dr. Bell and his methods. . . . Watson was just an average man-not really stupid, simply average...
Prospects. In Berlin Vofwarts, organ of the largest German party (Social Democratic), declared "the Government could do nothing more stupid than to reject Herr Briand's proposal." Minister of Interior Dr. Josef Wirth, formerly Chancellor, promised that the Cabinet would examine the scheme "with an open mind...
...avocation, partly because he was passionately fond of the tales told him of his native Dorset, and thought something should be done about them, partly because his first popular novel (Far from the Madding Crowd) produced such a sensation, both in England and America, that he would have been stupid to quit. That he had not too high an opinion of either his prose or his poetry, he indicated in a letter to U. S. Critic Jeannette Gilder : ". . . my respect for my own writings and reputation is so very slight that I care little about what happens to either...