Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poor Europe! Stupid Europe!", wrote onetime French Prime Minister Edouard Herriot in L'Ere Nouvelle last week. Proposing an economic federation of European states to resist Soviet "dumping" and U. S. "imperialism," he flayed his successful French political rival M. Briand for proposing a mere piddling political "United States of Europe" (TIME. Sept. 22 et ante). He concluded: "Poor Europe which is short sighted and refuses to unite! Stupid Europe which does not hear the crackings of its obsolete construction...
...greatness is no warranty against error or poor judgment. Even this peaceful village of New York Mills has been stirred to excitement by what you said in column 3, p. 21, Sept. 8 issue. "Fin-land, whence come house servants who are either very fine and faithful or extremely stupid." What do you know about Finns? Send a correspondent to New York Mills, located within the second largest Finn settlement in America; a section 30 by 60 mi., where 23,000 Finns reside. In New York Mills is published the oldest and at one time the largest Finnish-American newspaper...
Died. Milton Sills, 48, famed cinemactor, intelligent player of stupid two-fisted roles (Men of Steel, Hard Boiled Haggerty, The Barker}, onetime Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Chicago, onetime actor of melodrama with a kerosene troupe in Ohio, onetime Broadway idol, all his life a student of literature and music; of a heart attack after a hard game of tennis with his wife (Doris Kenyon Sills) at their home in Brentwood Heights near Los Angeles. Eight years ago Sills told Louis Sherwin, colyumist of the New York Evening Post, why he left philosophy for acting. Said...
...damage, was caused by the sorry action of a would-be practical Joker. Among the traditions of every student community are treasured the ooups of the great practical jokers of its past--men famed for the astuteness and the climactic humor of their deeds. If the present bit of stupid destruction were intended in emulation of these deeds, it can only be judged as a miserable failure. More charitable would it be to attribute it to a move of simply insanity...
...this, as in all Soviet post-revolution cinemas, propaganda is paramount, though more subtle. It is a one-actor show as opposed to the mass-action of Potemkin, Ten Days that Shook the World, Old and New with the people's awakening centred in the phlegmatic, stupid, finally violent figure of the Mongol hunter. Valery Inkizhinov, a Mongol by blood, is a capable tool of Director Vsevolod Pudovkin in showing forth the brutal elementalism of his race through the medium of the duped Asiatic. Typical shots: Inkizhinov wrecking the general's headquarters; the drooling baby Lama at the Festival...