Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said The World: "Imagine a man like Bud Fisher not being cognizant of the vast difference between two such totally different towns as Greenville, N. C, and Greenville, S. C. . . . How on earth could Bud Fisher possibly have been so stupid as not to know that Greenville, S. C., had such a mass of spindles? . . . The World, in behalf of Bud Fisher, does the manly thing and apologizes...
Suffrage leaders have always predicted that the entrance of women into politics will appeciably raise the ethical standard of campaigns. At last their prophecy has been realized. While stupid male candidates become heated over oil and the Supreme Court, the women with that constantly described intuition of theirs have gone straight to the heart of the campaign and are incisively discussing Mrs. Coolidge's policy of wearing $1.69 shirt-waists and of baking the White House biscuits...
...spanked her. One thing led to another and by the second year of her married life she was telling her husband she had been home all day when she really had been to Manhattan and that hats cost eight dollars when they really cost twenty. The husband was stupid but he finally caught up with the parade of prevarications. Thereupon he produced a pistol and waved it around for the better part of an act until he had separately threatened everyone in the cast and all but the upper boxes in the audience. Ralph Kellard, as the husband, brought...
...lives in Berlin. Once Gorky opposed the Bolsheviki; then he admired them, and became one himself. Later he got disgusted, and by a trick managed to leave Russia. Biased Bolsheviki think he is a gawk; hence the expression, "Gawky Gorky." Of course, Maxim Gorky is neither awkward nor stupid, as War Lord Leon Trotsky pointed out in an inflammable speech...
...islands and the criminal underworld, Mr. Vance ventures into the more polite, if less exciting, realm of Society. The new atmosphere makes Mr. Vance a bit giddy. He teeters on his mental tiptoes, nervously juggling bright phrases, while he tells the simple tale of Nelly Wayne and her rather stupid husband, Pendleton. Nelly is a member of the "irritable race" -a writer. When Jill Wetherell, aging nymph, snares Pendleton in one of his "misunderstood" moments, Nelly vengefully becomes Mrs. Paramor. Ultimately, both Nelly and Pendleton revert to type and the story closes with a coo. It is all very country...