Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was a real witch with matted gray hair and a nose like a spigot who rode on her broomstick way into the sky and ate little children. There was a gingerbread house and a red-hot oven where plop ended the witch pushed by wee Gretel just too stupid to get in herself. "Hocus pocus. . . ." Children loved it. So did grown-ups who quite forgot the tawdry Violanta of early afternoon...
...faces." Lamps burn in many garrets long after the day's work is finished while slaves to the dream of puzzle riches ponder and strive. Seduced by the promises of advertisement and feature contests, (arranged by canny publishers to force-feed circulation), the slaves work endlessly. Earnest, stupid, they know not that they have scarcely one chance in one thousand to win the prize...
...Significance of the writings of Authors Mencken & Nathan has increased steadily since they formed their literary vaudeville team. Readers of the American Mercury, of which Mr. Mencken is editor, Mr. Nathan, dramatic reviewer, have smirked at the pair with the nervously good-natured tolerance that a stupid child affects when he sees "Billy is a fool" written upon the school wall. Intelligent critics realize the formula upon which these angry, mocking mimes base their performance. The grotesqueries which they flay are often genuine; but most intelligent people find more important things to think about than such grotesqueries. The admirers...
...read of this young person's chatter, of her preparations for the event?her vanity bag, Chinese ring, knickers, black and red four-in-hand tie and pastel-shaded band over dark brown hair?and to remember that she was going to risk her life just to gratify her stupid vanity...
...vaudeville with Russian emigres, only three of whom were professional performers. The first attempt was creaky but a "moral success"; its possibilities were recognized by Charles Cochran, London producer. Under Mr. Cochran's management M. Balieff took the troupe to London. Shortly afterward "that stupid man" appeared, M. Balieff and his vaudeville opened in Manhattan and played 65 consecutive weeks; toured; became a U. S. institution...