Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pope Pius XI told an audience of 200 priests: "It is not uncommon now to hear very young children call their fathers 'stupid'' and to hear adolescent youths describe their parents as 'encumbering bag-gage.' This breakdown of domestic discipline constitutes one of the most urgent problems of the present...
...that the man for whom she has sacrificed everything, whom she has made successful, has be trayed her, sings alone and downcast a ballad of unrequited loyalty. As the fighter whom she coaxes out of a cabaret and into a gymnasium, Robert Armstrong, who makes a specialty of playing stupid fight ers, gets several laughs. Best shot: the big fight between Armstrong and McCloskey, when Fannie Brice yells to McCloskey to hit her onetime sweetheart on his re modelled nose...
During the past few months, however, it has become fairly obvious that nothing can be done about cleaning up the mess, if everybody except a few fanatical teetotalers and topers remains silently acquiescent to a stupid compromise in which liquor is forbidden in order to please the days, and obtainable in order to satisfy the wets. If it is admitted that the vast majority of college men are dissatisfied with the present situation and that at least a good majority drink, according to their own confession, there will be cries against washing dirty linen in public, In the final, honest...
...objections raised last year by Cambridge undergraduates against the inception of the House Plan to the fact that Harvard had been anticipated several years earlier by Princeton in an unsuccessful attempt to establish a quadrangle system. Both Harvard and Yale may be tradition-bound, but neither is so blindly stupid as to discard a practicable idea because the other has first tasted...
...because he was afraid Neris would ultimately fling him to the crocodiles, her customary farewell to outworn lovers. Actor Jessel, swarthy, expressive young Hebrew, makes Joseph as glib, crafty and loquacious as a Jewish press agent, driving bargains which Potiphar, played by the splendidly silly Ferdinand Gottschalk, is too stupid to see, digging irrigation ditches because he does not believe in the pluvial generosity of the Egyptian gods, and finally escaping execution by persuading his gaoler that the gaol can be made to pay. Actor Jessel has hitherto been vaudevillian in his tendencies; now he shows himself as a player...