Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory of romantic irony, one of the most extravagant theories of that extravagant movement, was first worked out by Friederich Schlegel. "Formerly," says Heine, himself a romantic ironist, "when a man had said a stupid thing he had said it; now he can explain it away as irony...
...Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, under the direction of Leo Bulgakov, becomes a beguiling bit of theatrical amusement. An Oriental Princess, the fable has it, would guard her ephemeral freedom from the male sex behind a hazard of riddles. Suitors failing to solve her prehistoric crossword puzzles lose their stupid heads. One young Prince not only guesses all the riddles, but makes Her Wilful Highness like him for it, as well. The feminine "shall I, shall I not" is woven into the fabric of a soundly constructed play, one that feels itself easily superior to the crude realisms of ordinary...
...William Williams Keen, surgeon-educator, of Philadelphia: "Irritated by stupid campaigns against vaccination, I wrote last week a letter to the New York Times, in which I said: 'In the U. S. for the seven years from 1919 to 1925 there were 409,639 cases of smallpox. Even granting that the percentage of deaths was very small, there were at least 350,000 or even more cases in which the victims were made repulsive for life by the pitting of their faces and handicapped in both their business and social relations. In addition to this a very considerable number...
...first serious indication of the new forces at work among the laboring masses is the Passaic strike. Here the mill-owners have attempted the age old intolerably stupid method of force and terrorism in an attempt to beat back the demand for reform. They have succeeded only in arousing greater determination among the strikers and in attracting nation wide attention to the intolerable conditions among the textile workers...
...pleasant to be beaten continuously but it is a good thing for Harvard if it will awaken the undergraduate body to a realization of what is wrong there. Graduates who know the West realize that the stupid toryism which is putting New England on the toboggan industrially, for years with few and short intervals has had its dead hand on Harvard athletics. If intercollegiate sports are a good thing get the men who can teach you to win your share of contests. There is no virtue in any qualification other than the ability to win in a sportsmanlike manner...