Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little learning has King Alexander of Jugoslavia as to what the rest of the world thinks of assassins. Shrewd, His Majesty ordered news of the Princip memorial suppressed, and when it leaked out commanded the Foreign Office to dismiss the Chief Censor. Frightened, stupid underlings at the Bureau of Censorship freely passed despatches telling how Dictator-King Alexander had almost succeeded in keeping the world ignorant that his people have glorified a deed doubly foul?for Assassin Princip slew not only the Heir of Austria but also His Royal Highness' morganatic wife, Sophie Countess Chotek, mother of two sons...
...yellowish, sickly, as she reminds her boyish suitor that she lay with the dancer before killing him. When she tears the telephone from the hands of the lover, twisting in his death agony, she is horrifying. But for the most part the play wavers between melodrama which would be stupid without Miss Cornell and realism which defeats her attempts to give the story a malevolent lustre...
...will have "tool courses"? mathematics, languages?if such instruction seems necessary for work they may later be interested in. "Exploratory courses" will give them some taste of a field in which they may later specialize. Bright students may enter the Senior Division (upperclassmen) after one year of preparation, stupid ones may take three years...
...insidious influence of the avaricious advertiser and his stupid insistence on direct advertising have, I regret to observe, become increasingly effective and devastating. As the so-called Father of Radio Broadcasting. I wish again to raise my voice in protest against this revolting state of affairs. ... In all seriousness I attribute a part of the present undeniable slackening in radio sales to the public as actually due to this pernicious advertising. The radio public is, I believe, becoming nauseated by the quality of many of the present programs. Short-sighted "greed of the broadcasters, station owners and advertising agencies...
...government official has made a stupid mistake and is publicly denounced as a blockhead by his chief. In an agony of humiliation, he resigns his position, is ashamed to go home, gets very drunk and sleeps with a prostitute. His easy-going brother patches things up again...