Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, the Ambassadors of Italy, France, Russia, Brazil-had begun to arrive, 50 chairs reserved for the missing Germans had been removed and table seatings rearranged. Informed of the boycott, Prime Minister Chamberlain was heard to exclaim: "How stupid!" But Mr. Chamberlain made no changes in his speech, got a big hand when he came to the "offending" sentence...
...London, the Almost Modern Order of Purchasers, a 17-year-old society whose 250 members are men "of good repute, who have made a darned stupid mistake or been badly done," met for its semi-annual dinner. Newest member: a patriotic stock-broker who was so carried away during the European crisis that he enlisted simultaneously in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force...
Meanwhile, he married an English girl, raised three daughters, wrote light novels (The Maker of Heavenly Trousers), composed witty epigrams (A diplomat sometimes has to deal with people who appear to be stupid. Very often they are stupid. But it is better not to count on their stupidity). His humor is infectious; his jokes are good; his friends highly placed; his tone that mixture of arch indiscretion and frivolous reticence which is found nowhere on earth except in diplomats' autobiographies. But when readers consider that through the years of his hilarity wars and revolutions swept over Europe, that...
...refute what the Colonel was supposed to have affirmed, Pravda supplied a deposition signed by eleven leading Soviet airmen who called Charles Augustus Lindbergh a "stupid liar, a lackey and a flatterer of German Fascists." "According to information in the highest quarters in London, Paris and Prague," said the Soviet airmen, "the Soviet air fleet is quantitatively at least equal to the combined German and Japanese air forces and is qualitatively much superior...
...differences in age or education affects its marital happiness. Contrary to the findings of other experts, early marriage, brief acquaintance before marriage, petting in adolescence, inadequate sex instruction, have little effect on marital happiness. But relative mental ability counts: a bright husband is likely to be unhappy with a stupid wife; a wife is happy if her husband is superior, unhappy if he is inferior...