Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were turned into hoydens, generals into cannibalistic monsters, politicians into poisonous toadstools. The plump Duke of Norfolk was pictured lying on a table like an apple dumpling, Tom Paine was made to look as thin and mean as a sharp knife, the Royal Georges were shown with the complacently stupid expressions of goldfish, and Lord Nelson's beautiful mistress, Lady Hamilton, was portrayed as a coarse, fat, dowdy Dido (see cut), mourning among the souvenirs of her lover's Nile victory, when he sailed away to fight another round with Napoleon...
Warminster Military Academy was founded last fall when the Balleses bought a farmhouse near Norristown. Parents were stupid or careless enough to entrust their offspring to this institution. Tuition: $1,100 a year plus some $5 a week for laundry plus $74 for a uniform...
George Henry is convinced that the one-third are not necessarily either stupid or underprivileged; they are just "nonverbal." Many of them have good minds and superior talents ("the kind of intelligence it takes to build a boat from blueprints"). Some cities now put such students in vocational schools-but there, Henry objects, they take four years to learn what they could learn (with pay) in industry in a few months. His recommendations: more movies and radios in the schools, much more pioneering in the uses of arts-drama, music and painting, "to sharpen the awareness of pupils to their...
...levels for Canadian educators, added Educator Brebner, are "stupid"-most Canadian scholars and teachers are paid so little "that a very large proportion of their potential usefulness is continuously being poured down the sewer of . . . drudgery and hackwork for other income." Thus they yield quickly when American universities and laboratories beckon. "One can predict the uproar in the press and parliaments of Canada if the United States tried to buy a single Canadian island. . . . But the never-ending loss of scholars passes without comment...
...Ambassador Grew, in January 1941, that the Peruvian Minister had learned "from many sources, including a Japanese source" that the Japs planned to open the war with a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. (Intelligence officers somehow figured out that no Jap in a position to know would be so stupid...