Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Michael Foot, Laborite M.P., said that "American political ideology really is about 30 years behind Europe," saw a "whirlwind brewing on the other side of the Atlantic." The Conservative Daily Mail chided the embittered critics: "Such comment is as impertinent as it is stupid. The Americans have every ground for resenting it, in the same way that we resent uninformed American criticisms of our own actions. . . . The American people have exercised their democratic privilege of voting for the party that pleases them...
...prima donna in technique but not in temperament. A hearty, buxom woman with auburn hair and green eyes, she is as relaxed as a double-jointed shortstop. According to her husband, she is so chronically good-natured that "no one is ever quite sure whether she is stupid or lethargic." She was born above her father's drugstore in the old German section of South St. Louis, and brought up in so deeply Germanic an environment that she still punctuates her conversations with...
...have, then intelligent girls, formerly convinced of their intelligence, who gradually have come to feel stupid and unwanted, not so much because of the Harvard man's disdain, but because of their own lack of initiative...
...slender, 35-year-old wife, Brunhilda, were packed and read)' to sail to Germany. Then the State Department suddenly took back its permission for them to leave the U.S. In their almost bare $35-a-month New York City apartment, balding Gerhart Eisler spouted "ridiculous . . . stupid . . . nonsense" at the idea that he was a super-secret agent of Kremlin policy...
...Daily Mail fell overboard, estimated the value of the loot at $2 million. U.S. papers wildly reported that two socialite women were under suspicion, and that the Duchess had stored part of her million-dollar collection in a safe-deposit vault. The Duchess regretfully denied that one: ". . . It was stupid. I've been kicking myself all over the place." The Duchess was asked to describe the basis on which she selected jewels to match her costumes. She said: "A fool would know that with tweeds or other daytime clothes one wears gold arid with evening clothes one wears platinum...