Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified oases, are Tiiznit, Smara and Kerdous. Their last few Sultans have been notably stupid...
...baitings in Germany and mishaps on the stock exchange, The House of Rothschild is an historical picture in the grand manner, conducted with splendid energy and style. "Dignity" is what old Mayer Amschel Rothschild advises his sons to acquire. The picture, like Nathan Rothschild, is dignified without being stupid. As squealing little Julie Rothschild, Loretta Young manages to be gay without appearing to have stepped into pro-Victorian England out of a Ziegfeld chorus. C. Aubrey Smith is excellent as Wellington. As old Mrs. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who gets the wittiest lines Nunnally Johnson was able to pack into...
...railway clerk. Soon in debt, with his salary garnisheed. they move in on the Fisher family, where his asinine laughs, platitudes and backslapping madden his sardonic mother-in-law. J. Aubrey loses his job, wrecks a borrowed car, is cast off by his wife. By stupid luck he muddles out of his despair to remain the same conceited show-off to the end. Good shot: ¶Ma & Pa Fisher after the wedding reading Aubrey's travel folders on Waikiki Beach, the Taj Mahal and the Riviera while the honeymooners embark on the night boat to Albany...
...changed now. By their stupid foreign policy the Germans have ruined any chance they might have had of preventing the formation of an Italian bloc, for if Germany opposes anything it is simply as a matter of principle, supported by the rest of the European powers. France in particular has been so completely alienated that Mussolini no longer need have any fears of a Franco-German rapprochement. He is thus able to proceed with his plans and France, far from making difficulties, tries instead to assure their success by persuading her Balkan allies not to raise any objections. There...
...anyone ever will. He does not fail to show Bonfils in his worst lights: he reveals him as a crack-pot miser, who hides behind the ticket booth at his circus so that he will not have to admit his own daughter free; he shows the reader a stupid man, a crooked man, a bully, and a sorry figure. But the other side of the picture is between the covers: Bon blazes out his courage as he takes bullets from the gun of an enraged invader of the offices of the Post; the strange man's one apparent show...