Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...esthetic followers of "art for art's sake," Henley's boisterous, often crude vitality seemed both stupid and frightening. Esthete Aubrey Beardsley was so terrified by his first glimpse of the "pirate" that he turned and ran for his life. Arch-esthete Oscar Wilde was made of sterner stuff. In a scathing review of Henley's hospital poems (whose occasional beauties, said Oscar, were "very refreshing [bits] of affectation in a volume where there is so much that is natural"), he opened a running fight with Henley that lasted nearly 20 years. The fight ended indecisively...
Cried Radio Yenan: "Chiang Kaishek, the Fascist chieftain . . . whose policy has been to sit aside and watch others fight . . . really has no right to accept a Japanese surrender. . . . Reactionary . . . stupid . . . sinister plot ... to instigate civil...
Senator Johnson accused the Army of "blind and stupid and criminal" failure to provide an orderly discharge of soldiers...
...know," said a tall, sandy-haired youngster, "I think this non-fraternization is just plain stupid. What I mean is, it's going against human nature. . . . After all we are supposed to educate these Germans back to be normal citizens, and this way we're just raising a barrier between us and them." "Listen," said the other soldier, "you got the wrong slant. All a soldier wants is a little fun. The order doesn't seem to make sense but I can see some reason for it. ... We've got to teach these Germans that...
Same day Moscow's Red Star jumped on a Christian Science Monitor dispatch from Istanbul as "a most stupid invention . . . shocking lie." Retorted the Monitor, which, like all but Russian papers, is kept out of most of the Balkans: "If our Balkan coverage has limitations, we would be glad for permission from the Soviet Government to expand it by placing correspondents [there...