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Word: stupidly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife, Doris Dalton is a woman who loves her husband, but would rather have him broken than not at all. The chief psychiatrist, played by Kendall Clark is an unimaginative idiot, who cannot think beyond a work association test. Clark's acting, however, makes the man a bit too stupid to be believable...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Shrike | 10/22/1952 | See Source »

Hallelujah! It's about time TIME did something about that stupid Texas myth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...protest against something that was happening that was not democratic, I say yes ... I don't say yes to anything now except cancer, polio, and cerebral palsy, and things like that ... I have been awakened to a realization that I have been irresponsible and slightly-more than slightly-stupid. When I was solicited I always simply said, "Oh, isn't that too bad. Sure, use my name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Born Recently | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

Speaking of his days at Harvard, Santayana confessed that he hated President Eliot, and loved President Lowell--"a gentleman, a man of deep understanding." But Eliot was, for Santayana, the symbol of everything he loathed; he was "The Last Puritan," the figure of stubborn, stupid morality...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Miller Was Last Harvard Man to See Santayana | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

...Season. In Berchtesgaden, Germany, Georg Kuesswetter was caught setting fire to Alpine skiing huts, told the court: "I wanted to scare away all those stupid tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 29, 1952 | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

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