Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present parlous situation (she is accused of stabbing Baba Waring), have her say to her lover in the final syndicate installment: "See you after the war." The ladies were whistling in the dark. Deathless Deer was perhaps the most ineptly drawn of all comic strips. The dialogue was stupid and corny. Newsmen settled down to betting on how long Joe Patterson could stand it. Finally, he gave up, and thus death, as it seldom does to U.S. comic strips, came to Deathless Deer...
There was irony in the one thing on which the Government and A. P. agreed: that A. P. was certainly the best news service in the business (although the Government saw this as a handicap to newspapers without A. P. service). A. P., though flattered, was not stupid; its lawyers played down this superiority, heartily extolled the merits of its smaller rival, United Press. Any paper with U. P. service could get along nicely, cooed...
Most observers could tell from a person's appearance whether he was bold or fearful, gay or morose, intelligent or stupid. They were less successful in detecting inner feelings. But with training in sharper observation, the judges' appraisals grew more penetrating; for example, by noting exaggerated mannerisms and subtle hesitations they could determine when boldness merely cloaked a feeling of inferiority...
Long Live Blimp-But in the Daily Mail, thin-skinned Ward Price devoted an entire outraged column to the picture of Blimp's life: "To depict British officers as stupid, complacent, self-satisfied and ridiculous may be legitimate comedy in peacetime, but it is disastrously bad propaganda in times of war. ... In such times as these, when the respect and confidence of other countries are of vital importance to us, we cannot afford to put out a burlesque figure like this Colonel Blimp to go round the world as a personification of those British officers who . . . gave...
...eyes of even the most stupid Germans, these eyes have been opened by the terrible blood bath in which Hitler and his confederates are trying to drown all Europe in the name of the freedom of the German nation. Germany's name will remain forever dishonored if German youth does not at last rise up, avenge and destroy its tormentors and help in the building of a new spirit in Europe...