Word: brainless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selection of Ivy Orator, we must go further. Not only must he be a man naturally fitted for making a humorous speech, but he must be trained to the point of highest efficiency in a cram school for brainless clowning. For professor I nominate the heeler who wrote the CRIMSON editorial board. I have failed. It is impossible to carry the jest further than you have already carried it in yesterday's editorial. The system of elections that has chosen for Ivy Orator such men as Loftus Becker, Stephen Stackpole, and Vincent Palmer needs no improvements. W. H. Lewis...
...National Socialism is a reaction against Jewish intellectualism. It is a return to intuition. . . . Literature has done more than anything else to alienate peoples. . . . Sensation-hungry foreign correspondents would do well to discover the metaphysical roots of National Socialism instead of dealing with sensations of the day. Only brainless spiritual dwarfs cannot realize that Germany is Europe's shock absorber against the invasion of the immeasurable East which would have destroyed European culture. Hereafter the cultural as well as the political development of the Third Reich will be dictated by the Party...
...Boston audiences brainless? (Enter Mr. Dixon's practical nature.) Oh, they're not so stupid, and a stupid audience is probably the most painful thing I know. (Mr. Dixon's frankness returns.) No, I should say that the Army intelligence tests are too generous." Here the conversation followed a tangent into the merits of a Harvard education, but the actor's knowledge of literature exceeded that of the reporter, who departed, leaving the former before his glaring mirror, which might not have been as brief as the candle...
...swift, kaleidoscopic. Trapper Hero saves Dance-Hall Heroine from a fate worse than Death. Villain, a smooth little thing with a grin nothing can eradicate, admires Hero's prowess in the ensuing free-for-all, goes into partnership with him in the trapping business. Hero is brawny but brainless, is easily tricked by Villain, who runs off with Heroine to wicked Manhattan. When Hero discovers he has been bad, the forest suffers, his rage spares nothing. He sets out in pursuit. Meanwhile Villain's fortunes suffer. He encounters a penny-in-the-slot machine, tries to work...
...performed prodigies of senseless versatility in the U. S. funny-papers (New York Herald et al). Cartoonist Harry Cornel Greening equipped his creature with a row of buttons down the back which, when pushed, set Percy to his tasks. Only trouble-and chief source of comedy-was that, being brainless as well as tireless, Percy would keep on doing whatever he started until someone pushed another of his buttons. Thus, stoking a warship, when he had stoked away all the coal, he shoveled into the powder magazine, blew up everything but his indestructible self...