Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sang his praises; you told us how he was a Tartar; in fact, you did everything but mention that he is Jewish. This you did deliberately, with malice aforethought. Whenever one speaks of Yehudi, one simply can't leave out the fact that he is Jewish. You stupid, blind and jealous editors did. I like your nerve...
Partners in Crime. Wallace Beery, stupid sleuth, is told to "go and make a down payment on a brain, as everybody else has one." Raymond Hatton, sometimes a scampering reporter and sometimes a knife-wielding gangster, is the cause of Mr. Beery's bewilderment. There are funnier things in the world than mistaken identity, but they are not present in this film...
...portly dark-complected Samy Pasha in his place of honor on a school-house porch, requested him to depart. She did not "want him around," said Mrs. Reynolds. Insulted, Samy Pasha and his party returned to their hotel. Not until Governor Byrd apologized in person for Mrs. Reynolds' stupid race-blindness did Samy Pasha shrug his smooth shoulders and say, good-naturedly: "It's all right. We forget...
Albert M. ("Lucky") Snook, Vandyke-bearded publisher of the Aurora, Ill., Beacon-Journal, smiled when stupid photographers asked him to spell his name over again. He had distinguished himself at the Associated Press convention in 1924 by emitting a strange & enthusiastic cry on the appearance of President Calvin Coolidge. His wife, at home in Aurora, heard the cry over the radio, said: "When I recognized Mr. Snook's holler, I knew he was all right." Mr. Snook achieved the epithet of "Lucky" when he won The Chess Game, a painting by John Singer...
Many people are parents. Many parents are stupid. They do not know their children any better than they know the milkman. They are responsible for children being called such insulting names as kiddies, brats, little lambs, little nuisances. They either display their children to visitors like new phonograph records or put them in corners like broken bridge tables. The old practice of cuffing children has given way to almost complete indifference. Parents who can afford a nursemaid seldom see their small children more than once or twice a day. Then, when a child gets older he is sent away...