Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a statistical novice, buxom Columnist Dorothy Thompson, told her 7,500,000 readers that the experts were screwloose. Speaking through her mythical breakfast companion The Grouse (grouch), who quarrels with her for being stupid and writes on the tablecloth,*Miss Thompson proved to her own satisfaction that not nine nor ten nor twelve million, but only two million were unemployed...
...best-informed newspaper reader in the world. . . . The German press, of course, does not publish indiscriminately all the lies and reports cooked up by hostile propaganda. . . . We are not rushing the German newspaper reader from one nerve-racking sensation to another, we are not subjecting him to every stupid political gossip coming from the mouth of some hysterical person or from the pen of our enemies...
...note what magazines the offense and defense find refuge in), Dorsey said in effect that Jitterbugs had just as much right to their style of dancing as did the swing musicians to their style of playing; and that anyway, there was nothing wrong with most Jitterbugs; that while rather stupid extremists could be found now and then, extremism of an asinine variety is not peculiar to the Jitterbug world. He adds the rather telling point that Jitterbugging to the stimulus of a couple of cokes is much better than doing the Charleston--badly--to the tune of bathtub...
They told them: how they had once wanted to attack the German prize crew which boarded their ship and forced them to sail her north to Murmansk; how Captain Joseph A. Gainard, lean, softspoken, restrained them; that the Nazi crew were "damned good sailors" but ate themselves stupid on U. S. cooking; how in Murmansk they had seen the liners Bremen, New York, St. Louis, Hamburg...
...belongs. If any scandal calls for national publicity, it is the Republican plunderbund's 50 years of public-be-damned despoilment of our city, to pay for which that party now resorts to taxing the pay envelope of the lowest wage earner. The tragic irony of "honest" (or stupid) Mayor Lamberton's inaugural words, "If it [my administration] fails, you can blame the Republican Party," must be obvious to all but Philadelphia's majority of smug and supine voters. Also TIME-worthy is the Mayor's earlier advice to city employes that loyalty "is the finest...