Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Founder Joseph William Gray was a testy little Jeffersonian who declared in the first scrawny issue of the Plain Dealer that "the stupid fool who cannot, in this age of thrilling events, 'throw some fire into his writings ought to throw his writings into the fire.' " Cleveland was then a mudhole of 6,000 population and six newspapers, including the Eagle-Eyed News Catcher. Editor Gray put his fire into nose-thumbing rhetoric, got himself sued by Horace Greeley, denounced by Charles Dickens (then touring the U.S. like "a peevish cockney traveling without his breakfast"). Bigger fame came...
...group or clique is losing this war, it's the women, poor dears. Here they are, losing all their most precious possessions, the men, to this horrid, stupid old war. Then when the war is over it looks as though there'll be so many more of their sex left than the other that the United States will have to go over to polygamy. Imagine having to share Cary Grant with another cat! My dear, it's horrendous...
Many a Congressman last week got batches of red-hot mail asking him why in the blankety-blank he had been so blankety-blank stupid to vote against fortifying Guam when the Navy asked for it, back in 1939 and 1940. Meantime Congressmen began sounding off with a little hot talk of their...
This rumor, in connection with the Free French seizure of St. Pierre and Miquelon (see p. 26), briefly produced great Allied confusion. But Vichy shortly called the reports "stupid lies...
...taking the sacred name of defense and taking it in vain, the so-called business forces of the country have maligned and unfairly damned labor to such an extent that a misled public has forced Congress to pass these restrictive laws. Craftily playing on the stupid mistakes of a few labor leaders and skillfully using the powers of their allies, the press, the anti-labor forces of this country have succeeded in anathematizing the name of their enemies among the neutral portions of the nation...