Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been without its risque plays. But never not even in the decadence of Restoration Comedy, have risque plays been so stupid as those which adorn New York stages today. Whether or not Mr. Ames group is successful in eliminating wholesale pornography; but if he and his associates are allowed a liberal power of suppression of dull and unamusing plays the theatre will be if not more edifying at least more inspirational. The public would gladly go without its present superabundance of sex and salaciousness if the results offered greater entertainment value...
...Capital left Austria in billions, legally and by the connivance of avaricious Christians. For a time Christian gold flowed in from the outer world but soon it was all lost by the charming but impractical Viennese. Department stores passed into Christian hands but the aisles were vacant, management was stupid, fashion languished. The krone, dropping dizzily, turned today's newly-rich bourgeois into tomorrow's bankrupt. Theatres closed or gave dull plays with inept actors. Tens of thousands of Viennese apartments stood vacant. Viennese husbands moped; without the competition of smart Jewesses, their wives wore Scotch tweeds, Alpine woollens...
...trainmen two others. Then this U. S. Mediation Board will appoint two more men to represent the public, and the six will constitute a Board of Arbitration, whose decision we recommend that you follow, although that is not obligatory. You can force a strike if you are really stupid." The Board of Arbitration met the end of October. On it sat For the railroads: Robert V. Massey of the Pennsylvania and William Ayer Baldwin of the Erie. For the workers: E. P. Curtis, general secretary, Order of Railway Conductors, and Daniel L. Cease, editor, Railway Trainmen. For the public: William...
...tears. Mr. McCord has discovered the art of humor. This character of his who spends "Half Hours at Sea." who knows a "Philosophy of Ceilings." is humorous in his revlation of pathos. Life to him is no grand grasp of the mighty but a daily contact with the desperately stupid rhythm of life as it is. And the order of his day is the discovery of the droll, pathetic fact that life is life not a great scientific revelation but an amusing gesture. So Coles Philips would be right to suggest this as a Christmas gift, and the author...
...huddle is a perfectly proper and sportsmanlike means of introducing into the game the element of surprise, without which it would be stupid beyond words. The spectators for whom the game is made interesting ought certainly to be the last to complain if a few moments are required to set the stage for the thrill producers. Until a better means of achieving surprise is evolved, the huddle has come to stay...