Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of Cardinal Gasquet's work is merely to correct as far as possible the errors of text which crept into St. Jerome's careful chapters during the centuries when these were circulated by hand and copied by hasty, sometimes stupid scribes. The Cardinal's method is simple, laborious, exact. He commands a commission of twelve Benedictine monks whose assistants hunt the libraries and collections of Europe, dig and sniff in curious corners, and retrieve for him old manu scripts. By judiciously comparing these, of which some 20,000 have now been gathered, it will be possible...
...Boer mechanic, a native maid for Mrs. Johnson, nearly 200 native servants and an incredible number of supplies necessary for the making of good pictures, moving and still. Here meandered, day and night, elephants, "the good natured (until roused) bourgeois of the forest," the always bad-humored rhinos, the stupid hippopotami, dainty Abyssinian bushbucks and their antelope and gazelle cousins, gossipy baboons, antbear and wart hogs, genets, and the carnivorous jackals, hyenas, leopards, lions, reptiles, nightingales, storks, flamingoes...
...Calabria was "the Land of the Sybarites," citizens who inhabited the metropolis of Sibaris and were accused by the conquering Romans of sleeping upon rose leaves. Today its stupid people toil in almost feudal servitude upon lands chiefly owned by the Italian nobility. Murders are almost twice as common as in Sicily and thefts more frequent than in Sardinia...
...addition to this smoking room form of drama than a repetition of innumerable predecessors. The girl friend of the rich wife says to her, in effect: "I think your husband married you for money. I will flirt with him and we shall see." Her advances distress the stupid husband; his "pal" gives him this advice: "Your wife's friend is not flirting with you, she is kidding you. Pretend to be taken in and see how far she will go. In the meantime, I will make moves toward your wife." As might be expected, misunderstandings arise. Animated only...
...Frank's statement is more corrupting to a young mind than anything I ever wrote and shows how necessary is this battle to remove sex discussion from stupid sniggering embarrassment to the level of any other important topic involving human happiness...