Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Somebody heard little Walter Winchell sing in a Harlem cinema house when he was 13, found him a sing-song job in Gus Edwards' Newsboy Sextet. That year, "incorrigible," "stupid," he quit school. Soon he was touring with a "gel," applauded by a few and egged by many as he hoofed and sang. As his voice grew deeper, his singing grew worse. After being laid off, in Durham. N. C., he fed chickens on a boxcar to get back to Manhattan. During the War he was Sailor Winchell...
...West, fat actress, was told to close Diamond Lil in Detroit last week because the play was "silly and stupid, holding no moral and teaching no lesson." Later Mayor John Christian Lodge relented, declared: "The show will be given a chance to revise itself...
...fear of being too easy, the English Department has placed its emphasis on stupidity. In its desire to penalize the lazy scholar, it has penalized the man of intelligence. It has made itself a rigid schoolmaster for the stupid and the uninterested, forgetting the education is for the clever. In order to make sure that a few men won't get through college without working, the English Department has degenerated to secondary school methods, and discouraged the able...
...would ill become TIME to designate any other magazine "particularly stupid . . . guaranteed to produce sleep." But perhaps TIME-readers know of some such magazine. If so, let them advise sleepless Reader Ring, c/o Taft Hotel, New Haven. Conn...
...credit to a medieval witch. A widow, she took in boarders. She advertised for a "willing young man" to help with the chores, drive her car. Six weeks ago one James Parks, 25, and one Earl Manchester 21, answered her notice. She hired them both. Parks was the more stupid of the two, Manchester the harder. She insured Parks's life for $7,000, with a double indemnity clause in case he died by accident. Then she worked on young Manchester to take her gun and kill Parks. She promised Manchester $1,000 of the $14,000 they would...