Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father, Publisher Jean Luchaire of Le Matin, had been shot as the archcollaborator of the Paris press during the occupation. There was nothing much anyone could say for his daughter. Said the judge: "While Frenchwomen suffered and fought, you led a gay life. . . ." Quavered Corinne: "I was young and stupid . . . I did not realize. . . ." Cried her lawyer: "What can you expect of a girl brought up in the depths of the elite...
...branding of the average soldier's conduct as "odious and disgusting" is a slap, not at the Army, but at the American way, for the Army of World War II was a civilian Army. He expresses wonder at "how naive and stupid" were the G.I.s. . . . Perhaps the former Army chaplain has forgotten that these "illiterates from Brooklyn, Texas and Los Angeles" are the same men who made it possible for him to return to this country in peace and hand down his judgments to their discredit...
...Barbarians. "His attitude was superiority.... It is incredible how naive and stupid he often was, though he never knew it; men judging whole populations by the few harlots, drunks and black marketeers they met; men from tenant farmer cabins in the South scoffing at the rock houses of European peasants . . . illiterates from Brooklyn, Texas and Los Angeles deriding the mellow folkways of ancient European communities...
Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick, lean, carefully tailored and 55, was booted out of high school in his native Superior, Wis. when he was 16, because he wanted to draw "and they made me take algebra and stupid history courses." He worked his way through the Chicago Art Institute by sweeping floors mornings, working in a cafeteria for his lunch, ushering in a theater at night. On the side, he sold so many cartoons (for $1 apiece) to the Chicago Daily News that he soon had a regular job. In 1913, he went to the Post-Dispatch, has been there ever since...
...thank Heaven, only puny war-mongerers, wrong, stupid, presumptuous, and equipped with very little more than an inane way of expressing your sagacities...