Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, Batista hit the ceiling. "Absurd!" he cried. "But you really could use the word stupid...
...with the Committee's desire to have a look at Goldberg, had frothed on the stand at the mention of Goldberg and Surplus Liquidators, Inc. Reading from a report, the Mayor declared that, as an auctioneer, Goldberg was "unethical, tyrannical and unfair . . . and to say the least stupid and arrogant." He was also, grimaced The Hat, a distributor of toilet seats. To punctuate his testimony, Witness LaGuardia had shrilly mimicked an auctioneer's babble, yelling an occasional, gleeful "sold!" But Auctioneer Goldberg, who heard all this and more, too, had stubbornly refused to wilt...
...Columnist Mowrer had accused the Vatican of "supporting fascism against democracy" before the war, and wanted to know the future political designs of U.S. Roman Catholics. Such language, said Thackrey, who had printed it, was "intolerant . . . designed to insult his fellow Americans of the Roman Catholic faith." It was "stupid . . . Ku Klux Klanism, and worse. . . . No conscious fascist could have phrased it better." At week's end Mowrer had not chosen to reply in print. Said he: "Of course I could go down and talk it out with Thackrey, but my tailor hasn't got my Ku Klux...
...family on which Dr. Richardson reports in most detail included Martin Q, fortyish, "a little man with a pinched expression and a furtive look" who averaged under $20 a week from WPA or Home Relief, his plump, aggressive, somewhat stupid wife, their daughters Agnes, 19, and Catherine...
...loves censors, but some-like those at SHAEF-are especially unloved. Said the New York Times's crack Drew Middleton: "The worst [censorship] I have experienced in five years." The OWI's brash George H. Lyon (former Buffalo Times editor) risked a reprimand by calling SHAEF policy "stupid," and was straightway backed up by his boss, Elmer Davis...