Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though Edward of Wales often goes about unrecognized, and although Motorist George V has had several encounters with stupid traffic policemen, London editors could not recall that Queen Mary has ever before escaped recognition or suffered pert speech from one of her female subjects...
...Governor Smith. I want the non-political kind.' And he brought her downstairs, put her in an automobile and took her over to an office where a paper is published called The Fellowship Forum which, for a number of years, has been engaged in this senseless, foolish, stupid attack upon the Catholic Church...
Since Peace Prizer Briand's dander was now up, he digressed completely, to flay the many critics of the new, secret Anglo-French military-naval agreement (TIME, Aug. 13). Everyone now knows that the existence of the agreement was revealed through an incredibly stupid British blunder; and a further piece of British folly has been to keep the text dark after the fact of its existence leaked. Passion tinged the rich tones of Briand's voice as he cried: "France and Great Britain have been working together for the peace of the world, and have been singularly unfortunate...
Father Baldessare, fat, devout and stupid priest, was another to witness the miracle, and urged the Church to saint Annie Spragg. His credulity was rebuked by a more sophisticated churchman, who explained brutally that at the moment the Church had less need for miracles than for money...
Father d'Astier was this intelligent pragmatist, who never would have bothered to explain but for his exasperation that the stupid dolt was his son (illegitimate of course). He himself, suave, charming, had devoted his career to the greater need of the Church, and converted to Catholicism the rich and the powerful...