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Word: stupidness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intellectual freedom. And so would we here at Pennsylvania. But we feel that we have little to fear. We can make no comparison between the intelligence of a New England legislature and our own, but we would hesitate to believe that Pennsylvania's assembly would act in such a stupid fashion. Daily Pennsylvanian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POISONOUS NONSENSE | 3/19/1936 | See Source »

Lily Pons is not an actress and the plot "I Dream Too Much" is impossibly stupid but her voice is so fine that it almost compensates for the poor construction and amateurish acting of the whole cast. The only exception should be made for Eric Blore who is back as the owner of a wonderfully entertaining trained seal. The second time we "saw" the picture we sat in the lobby and enjoyed it much more than while looking at Miss Pous' rather unattractive face...

Author: By S. C. S., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 3/13/1936 | See Source »

...favor of the oath, for it is a stupid way of getting loyalty. The regimentation and discipline is further evidence of the increasing catholicism of state affairs. The results will be that teachers will be more careful of their liberties and will separate into distinct groups for and against the state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C. C. Little, Former Secretary of Corporation, Thinks Cancer Can Be Cured if Caught in Time | 3/5/1936 | See Source »

...Director Barber and his staff their most acute embarrassment of the week. FTP Vaudeville Production 4-A was booked to appear at Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, while Production 3-A was to be sent to amuse U. S. soldiers stationed on Governor's Island. Through some stupid blunder, the soldiers, to their great disgust, were offered 4-A, a skit called School Days in which frisky scholars tossed apples at their teacher and blurted low-calibre puns. To Stuyvesant High School, on the other hand, went 3-A, a divertissement called Parisian Nights. Intended for military consumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Double-Jeopardy | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...perfectly obvious to farseeing persons that this business of skipping a day, adding a day, dropping what is added and adding what is dropped, and then chucking the whole works every four hundred years leads inevitably to confusion and discontent. It is not only subversive, it is stupid. It is high time that those organizations which concern themselves with the welfare of humanity devote some time and effort, money and thought to a problem that is as vital as it is neglected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SUBVERSIVE SYSTEM | 2/29/1936 | See Source »

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