Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally someone spoke a few reasonable words. Said Gladys Tilden, a Westwood apartment operator: "The idea of withdrawing housing is scandalous and idiotic. They [the Apartment Association] are trying to break the OPA but they're too stupid to see that would only make matters worse. Increased operating costs haven't hurt like inflation would...
...interested in science itself. Last week they combined both interests in a telling blast against U.S. military authorities who had just destroyed Japan's cyclotrons. They put the destruction in a class with the German burning of the Louvain Library in 1914 and 1940 as a "wanton and stupid . . . crime against mankind. . . . Men who cannot distinguish between the usefulness of a research machine and the military importance of a 16-in. gun have no place in positions of authority...
...debacle of the London conference; the grim, plain, unheeded words of our scientists regarding the future of the atomic bomb; the President's absurd advocacy of universal peacetime, military conscription; the stupid reliance of our military leaders on outworn techniques of warfare; the tragic lack of statesmanship, realism and vision on the part of the world's government leaders in spite of the obvious desire of the world's peoples for a genuine peace and not an armed and jittery truce-all these portents mean but one thing: that the Third World War is in the making...
...this woman was well dressed, too. I looked at her and said: 'What do you want? That the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee, the representative of the supreme power, should come to you in straw shoes?' People around cried: 'Right! Right!' Here is a stupid woman not to understand that...
With righteous wrath, the Winnipeg Free Press, usually partial to Liberal Government doings, let go with both barrels: "Outrageous! ... A concession to the stupid, shortsighted and selfish interests of economic nationalism. . . . The issue is the future trade policy of Canada. . . . If the protectionists get away with this first assault, the floodgates will be breached. . . . This whole sorry business must be attacked head-on by the rank-and-file members of the House of Commons...