Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...further stated that this is not only a picture of life at the University, but a criticism of it. Rlley, the inevitable sophisticated character who is always getting off some witty, or otherwise remark, announces, "Everybody nowadays is an ass; stupid, stubborn, uncaring, unheeding--animals--asses." Among the other "asses" are the typical athlete, the disillusioned war veteran with an inferiority complex, and several women, ladies and otherwise, varying from Beacon Street to manicure parlor types...
...reports, people clamored and paid admission for the purpose of curtseying and kissing the hand of these pretenders (reference to the recent visit of the Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna (TIME, Dec. 15) in a manner so un-American that it would have been shocking were it not so ridiculously stupid...
...While in China I bumped into a war," he told me, "and I wanted to see how it felt to be under fire again. They certainly are stupid fighters : I stood behind a temple wall and let a sharpshooter spatter bullets all over it. He never came within a mile of me! "My wife, though, got into more serious difficulties. She went out walking one day and just as she was enjoying the scene, the Chinese thought they'd start their war, and she found herself between the armies. Fortunately a shell that struck three feet from her proved...
...stupid scene was "The Red Ladies". This was perfectly ordinary revue stuff. Perhaps not many new tunes will be put on the market on account of their popularity here, but one at least was excellent--"When You and I Were Dancing", sung and danced by William Ladd and Madeline Fairbanks. Eddie Conrad made an excellent New York announcer, who therefore spoke no English. The depressed Jimmy Save whose face would light up with almost human intelligence added to the gayety of the evening...
Into an excessively modern, and rather stupid, marriage comes a third woman. The wife, discovering the situation, insists that her husband elope with his new lady. At the last moment, she can stand the strain no longer and accompanies the elopement. She breaks...