Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 1931 he made headlines with the assertion that the 1,100 bank failures of 1930 were caused by a lack of "adult education for bankers." that the Depression was a "strange and stupid spectacle...
...Robbins insisted that the mention made of the proposed poker game in case the attendance at the meeting would not be as large as was expected was quite stupid. About sixty person were present last night...
...than ever in another soliloquy. But most of the items are by names unfamiliar, and one of them "Low Down" by Charles Angoff, is the most disingenuous attack on the best sellers in the last few years which has ever been published. It all sounds very jealous and stupid, and aggravates by getting at the popular books, by damning the New York Critics...
...that Hitler and his confreres would never dare make the suicidal gesture of defiance in the face of France, it would be well to consider two things. One is the strange obtuseness of the Teutonic mind, as it revealed itself in the last war, when by high-handed and stupid actions it swung American opinion over to the side of the Allies and finally brought us to intervention. Secondly, there is the fact that Hitler came to power through a burst of national hysteria and may have to retain power through hysterical procedures. He has used nationalism as a pretext...
Most clever novelists are content if they can make their stupid characters appear dunces, but clever Authoress Bowen has gone a step further and made fools of her clever people. A long step in advance of The Hotel (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929), To the North is written with the same unblinking observation that may seem to some readers heartless but is so devoid of comment that it cannot be called cynical...