Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incorporated in any peace. The point is that in breaking the shackles which restrained these ideas, the Nazis have generated new forces such as the superior race cult and ceaseless expansion doctrine. That these forces are wrong no one will deny, but that they are more wrong than the stupid devices of the World War I victors in their try at world management is questionable...
...through so much butter." Dr. Maynard is an old hand at stirring up churchmen. As a 19-year-old English man he came to the U.S. in 1909 to study for the Congregational ministry, was promptly fired from his first pulpit for preaching a sermon on "Silly fools, stupid fools and damned fools" which his hearers considered much too personal. Converted to Catholicism four years later, he now writes with the full fervor of the oath he took on abandoning Protestantism to "detest and abjure every error, heresy and sect opposed to the said Holy Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church...
...love affair which ended bruisingly. He had insomnia. He worried about his money. His humdrum associates, his stupid wife, his monotonous life suffocated him. Gasping for freedom and solitude, he decided to seize them forthrightly, converted all his securities into cash and disappeared...
From such signs as these any citizen could well conclude that Ordnance was doing a bang-up job. Yet in the rat-runs of official Washington he could hear a different, an almost contradictory story-that Ordnance, bumbling, inefficient, stupid, had botched its job, is headed for an inevitable shakeup...
Author Koeves is constantly torn between his desire to prove that Papen is a fool and his demonstration that he is satanically clever. To Author Koeves Franz von Papen may sometimes seem stupid. But to himself Franz von Papen must seem quite a success-at least as successful as the Abbe Sieyes, who, when asked: "What did you do in the French Revolution?," replied: "I survived...