Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Hebrew desperado who smashed, crushed but was stupid...
...Heckling: "The heckler usually furnishes a bright man with a glorious opportunity and inspires a stupid speaker to become hot and brilliant. The heckler, though the opposition may not know it, is usually the opposition's involuntary votive offering to the success of the meeting...
...quarrel was over a purse−and the world's bantamweight boxing championship. The desperado was Abie Goldstein, "Harlem assassin," titleholder, whose boxing on this occasion was now brilliantly clever, now dismally stupid. The little old man was Charley Ledoux, of France, aged 32, bantamweight champion of Europe, who had come to America a third time ("and last," said he) with titular intentions...
Although this hostile reaction on the part of Japan was wholly to be expected as a natural result of somewhat stupid senatorial bluntness, that fact makes the present situation no less tense, or the ultimate outcome no more discernible. As it is almost a foregone conclusion that the United States will not revoke its discriminatory legislation, interest centers about Japan's probable course of action when her protest is turned aside. As present indications suggest, that course will be one of fiery demonstration on the part of the nation and more or less half-hearted attempts at repression...
Russia: "I do not confound the Russian people nor the Russian Government with the Moscow International, whose political literature is stupid and puerile, and does not impress me. In trying to reestablish relations with the Soviet Republic, I shall not let myself be maneuvered by agitation and I shall not forget that small French investors have great interests in Russia...