Word: witless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone to the dingy Hotel Richemond and into the bedroom of rawboned, learned Dr. Peter Munch, Foreign Minister of Denmark. To them Dr. Munch pointed out that the Sanctions question and the Rhineland occupation had a definite lesson. It was time for the small neutrals to stop being the witless tools of France and Britain. An agreement was promptly reached. At Monday's luncheon they wanted to know without equivocation what France and Britain were prepared to do before they committed themselves. Captain Eden and M. Paul-Boncour outdid each other hemming & hawing...
...dress the Regency setting for Jane Austen's marital sweepstakes. Playwright Jerome has caught in her script a goodly quantity of Novelist Austen's sly, introverted wit, and Director Robert Sinclair has seen that a splendid cast of actors conduct themselves with all the foolish elegance and witless frivolity of the period...
...this difficulty Mr. Insull was, however, equal; there was the Colorado River Dam, and the pyrrhic battle with Cyrus Eaton: The difficulty to which he was unequal was that of liquidation. As an expert in money and banking, Mr. Insull knew that liquidation, on a large scale, is a witless feat which no one who lends money has a right to expect, and, if the demand had not been made upon him he was experienced and able enough to have managed the Insull machine through a period of reduced income...
...could have foreseen that Dean Mendell would make the statement which he did, all unafraid and all complacent, to the effect that Yale wanted nothing so much as to foster a spirit of cooperation between students and neighbours, albeit the neighbours were strike-breakers of the most brutal and witless kind...
...essence of capitalism is that these questions shall be automatically solved by the price system, by the operation of certain obvious laws of supply and demand. If we can buy a million automobiles, they will be manufactured; if we need them, but cannot pay for them, it is witless to order that they shall be nonetheless compounded...