Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appearances had no place in 64-year-old Security Planner Sir William Henry Beveridge's blueprint for "the ideal wife." Said the groom of three months: "She should be intelligent without being intellectual, keen without being earnest, silent without being stupid...
...ever. For the Roosevelt cartoons, whose art was more reprehensible than their message, Davis had a commonsensible explanation: the President "symbolizes the United States, both as a powerful nation and as a land of liberty and democracy. This fact is a national asset. . . . A Government information agency would be stupid not to capitalize...
...Worldwide listeners still send their favorite characters packets of tea and sugar, bundles of butter and chocolate. Like U.S. soap operas, however, this one has roused some dissenters. One weary British Tommy wrote of the Robinsons, in their own dialect, from the African desert. Said he: "They are proper stupid...
...Keeffe decided she was "a very stupid fool" not to paint just as she wished, sent a roll of sketches to a friend in Manhattan on the "express condition that they were not to be shown to anyone." The friend promptly showed them to Dealer Alfred Stieglitz (TIME, Jan. 11). He gave an exhibition of O'Keeffe in his "291" gallery, persuaded her to devote all her time to painting, married her eight years later. Her first sale brought $400. In 1928 she got $25,000 for five paintings of lilies. She once sold a single picture...
Dewey and Vandenberg, Taft and Bricker, old-line Republicans . . . Dewey young, but only physically. ... All wanting to go back to '29. Not one of them realizing what even the most stupid man in the street knows: that these are new times, enlightened times, progressive times. Not one of them with even a visible shred of social consciousness...