Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their acid comments, Low's cartoons have usually had an owlish, good-natured air that kept them from being really bitter. He presented people as stupid and self-righteous rather than wicked or frightening. For years his satire has been summed up in Colonel Blimp, a pathetically pompous old walrus who inhabits a Turkish bath and periodically sounds off. "Gad, sir," exclaims the Colonel, in a cartoon called Onward, Colonel Blimp! "the reason our government is always getting kicked in the pants is that it doesn't stand with its back to the wall." Although Low has carried...
...Berlin, U. S. Ambassador Hugh Wilson called on Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to explain in diplomatic language that German spying, though stupid and relatively fruitless, is annoying and insulting...
Divorced. Sari Maritza (real name: Patricia Detering-Nathan), 28, China-born, Europe-bred cinemactress (Monte Carlo Madness, The Right to Romance); from Sam Katz, 46. co-founder of famed Balaban & Katz theatre chain, vice president of Loew's Inc. Grounds: extreme cruelty (he called her "crazy." "stupid...
Although freedom of the press ceased to exist in Rightist & Leftist territory as soon as the civil war began, a reputed additional charge by General Yague that much Rightist propaganda has been "stupid" was more than proved later last week. The best propaganda is always subtle, apparently uncontrolled, as in England. With the stupidity of a Hitler, a Stalin or a Mussolini, President Franco by decree subordinated all Rightist Spanish news-organs to his Government last week. Under Article 17 of the new law the Government "shall have the power to punish administratively any conduct which directly or indirectly tends...
Youngest of 17 children, Andy Frain- who now clears $15,000 to $25,000 a year -was born poor, never went to high school, started his ushering career as a sideline to being a helper on a department store truck. He found ushering generally inefficient, characterized by stupid or unpleasant workers who made their living on tips for showing balcony patrons to orchestra seats. From Paddy Harmon, manager of the Chicago Stadium, Andy got his first big job; was soon so successful that Chicago hoodlums demanded a cut. He beat up their emissary. Four mobsters then tried to shoot...