Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After my examination of the wreckage I have no hesitation in saying this was the most stupid and most brutal act of modern warfare. Great Red Cross characters were painted across the roof giving the name of the hospital. One hundred and fifty patients were killed, 200 medical staff servants and others, to a total of over 500 casualties...
Helen Wills Moody is still an able tennis player as she demonstrated last fortnight when she paired with Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm to win the mixed doubles in the Pacific Southwest championship tournament from Mrs. John Van Ryn and Donald Budge. But "a stupid mechanical difficulty with a joint called the sacroiliac" persists and, as she recognizes by writing her autobiography, her tennis career is over. Today her career is on other courts: she paints (mostly still life), designs sport clothes and Lastex underwear, has lately taken a screen test, entertains in her duplex studio apartment...
...course the Giants may go whole Hoag and Ripple the Old Whitehead off the Yankees, thus slipping them the well-known double-Crossetti. So far the Yanks have been able to out-Lazzeri other club but DiMaggio they can take the Giants? (Do you imagine, stupid!). Remember the Giants are very good at Gehring the mail...
...their baths. Only official recognition of their presence was a tea with Hitler at which the Führer moved among the tables, chatting with them. Night before envoys of the U. S., Britain and France arrived, toucan-beaked Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels gibed that democracies were "stupid cows going to the slaughter house...
Newshawks from the "stupid" democracies also came in for their share of attack. At a press reception, smooth-faced Dr. Otto Dietrich, Nazi press chief, denounced freedom of the press in democracies as "a mask behind which . . . vultures hide their faces." U. S. correspondents smothered chuckles when the serious doctor declared that the duty of a New York journalist is to "tell lies and bow down in the temple of Mammon." Next day the U. S. correspondents facetiously organized the "Most Noble Order of Journalistic Vultures." Members, headed by a First Beak, will salute each other by placing thumbs behind...