Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curfew echoes: "Splendid innovation . . . menace to personal liberty more serious than prohibition . . . protection for our daughters . . . a stupid nuisance...
Lottie's vanity in wearing tight shoes, and the presence in town of a "Westopractor," suave quack, supply Mrs. Bascomb with tools for a Lady Macbethian coup. She engineers the perfectly healthy, stupid girl into bed with "spine trouble." Hypochondria sets in. Lottie is bedridden...
...Docile, stupid, Mae Jordan has toiled, swept. Last week, one Dr. Peter Rusk, kindly Samaritan, chiropractor, discovered the conditions of Mae's slavery, called upon Klein and Platz, blacked Mr. Klein's eye, punched Mr. Platz's midriff...
...GREAT GOD BROWN-A deep and sometimes confused conflict of stupid jealousy and brilliant weakness...
...will not shoot. ... If any gentleman here finds it necessary to take further issue with my honor, let him fire at me. I will not return his fire. I shall not resort to this stupid, inconclusive, and barbaric method of settling a quarrel which has been forced* upon me. I had hoped that because of my services to Poland no Pole would take my life. I have been shot at and missed. Had I shot I would not have missed. But I, for my part, I am unwilling to shoot another Pole...