Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional sport performers none receives less respect from the Press than the wrestler. Sportwriters think nothing of calling wrestlers stupid, shady, corrupt. But any who might have assumed that a wrestler could not be libelled learned the contrary last fortnight when famed Stanislaus Zbyszko was awarded damages from Hearst's New York American...
...beauteous singing maidens" is misleading also. Unless one has an eye for Guernseys and Holsteins, the beauty is unperceived. They have an appearance which might be termed serene, but is more accurately called stupid. The lack of clothing is also exaggerated, and not surprisingly so when one considers that nights are frosty in these parts except for three months a year. The removal of clothing annoys the police, and the "Douks" are wise enough to know this. Many people in the vicinity think the best means of combating the tendency to disrobe would be to ignore it. This...
...countrysides they are notorious pothunters. Hunting U. S. Presidents or other public officials is far easier for deranged dagoes than pothunting afield. All Joe Zangara had to do was go to Miami's Bay Front Park and take a front seat, wait like an ardent if stupid-looking patriot until the President-elect should come within range...
...difficulty of giving recalcitrant or stupid Tutees the benefit of the system without detriment to others more worthy has been a bone of contention over since the tutorial method of instruction was put into effect. The broad outlines of the problem should be familiar to all. The CRIMSON wishes merely to set forth its conclusions on the matter. First of all, it is apparent that the general examination should be a prerequisite to the A.B. degree. Individual course grades indicate practically nothing as to a student's mastery of his field. In consideration of the standards which...
...copy book philosophy. At the end of the picture he is a gay boulevardier. dressed in a depraved cutaway and accompanied by a mistress (Myrna Loy) whom he has stolen from a baron. The transformation starts when Topaze loses his job for punishing the baron's stupid son. It is completed when the baron (Reginald Mason) has made Topaze head of a fraudulent mineral water company and has procured for him the Academic Palm, which the professor has spent a lifetime trying to win by honest means...