Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warhead in the nose. It may have been modeled after the pilotless German V-i robomb, which it resembles in size and destructive capacity. Japanese broadcasts have glorified it under the name Jinrai ("sudden peal of thunder"), but U.S. fighting men promptly tagged it with another Japanese term, baka ("stupid"). In operation, Stupid is carried near its target by a bomber, then cut loose. The pilot glides down and can fire three rockets in the tail to give him bursts of speed for his death dive...
...trip to Nanning is good for the soul. The primary impression one gets in talking to people here is of the stupid, hollow nature of the great Japanese victories of 1944. Here in Nanning, at the core of the great continental corridor, lies exposed all the futility of what the Japanese tried...
...Waldorf.' I shall provide myself with the entertainment I want. What I have seen of the United States is awful. Factories, factories, factories! Businessmen, businessmen, businessmen! And people who ask me about Argentina. . .! Thanks, leave me alone. I want blondes, brunettes and redheads. I want them to talk stupid to me. I hate business...
...theatre, it seems a shame to condemn a drama which aims ostensibly to treat one of the touchiest of all real topics--death in war. But until some honest playwright can break away from fantastic treatment and false emotionality--to say nothing of avoiding poor casts and stupid dialogue--the stage might just as well stick to musicals and farces...
...Fred Pratt is adequate as Earl Tolloler, and Norman Cazden is also satisfactory, though he will have to learn to stand still and not force his voice if he is to be a really comic Private Willis. The male chorus sings powerfully and with gusto, and looks quite as stupid as the Peers are supposed to be (although they could hold their ceremonial robes a bit less like Indian blankets...