Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inductive logic is admittedly the most difficult and indefinite of the three branches. For the student who is interested in the course, the two or three voluntary section meetings during the reading period can prove little more than dull gatherings at which a lot of stupid questions are asked. For the student seriously perplexed by the final chapters in the book, lectures such as have been given previously would be of definite worth. When the adoption of the reading period adds nothing, and subtracts valuable explanatory lectures, there seems little reason for its continuance in a course like Philosophy...
...Florentines, renowned and feared for their sharp tongues and fierce wits, might have said on seeing their beloved city besmirched with a mob of insolent Black Shirts, and how the masters of art, accustomed to designing banners, uniforms and all sorts of processional devices, would have sneered at so stupid and colorless an emblem as that worn by the followers of Mussolini. . . . Florence is still one of the fairest cities on earth . . . but she is, as we say, a dead town, without spirit, imagination or courage...
...crowd saw a "judge," "jury," "prosecutor," "defense attorney" and the "prisoner": a Finnish janitor who spoke no English. He was charged with "white chauvinism" (i. e. race prejudice). Stupid persons in the audience probably thought that this was a real court, that the Communist International has power, even in the city of New York, to punish a white man for incivility to Negroes...
Promoters of the fair, all British, were privately upbraided by Edward of Wales for not advertising it as an all-South America not just an Argentine affair. There is still time, advised H. R. H., to retrieve this stupid blunder. To the crestfallen promoters the Prince of Wales estimated that he personally had persuaded at least 2,000 South Americans who would not otherwise have come to visit the fair?no petty achievement for the "Empire Salesman" since most of those personally persuaded were potent folk...
...present state of dramatic criticism he finds to be rather lamentable, censorship stupid and audiences daily growing duller. Yet there is O'Neill who will save the theatre from complete disintegration because he has "size." As for Barry, Kelley, Green, and Howard, Mr. Nathan disposes of them as a "dramatic barbershop quartette." In Vincent Lawrence, on the other hand, he finds the most gifted of present day comic-dramatists. From the rest," . . . we get the current liberal smear of pseudo-profound poppycock dealing with burnt-cork Spinozas, flapper Margaret Sangers, Strindbergian street-walkers and doughboy Bismarcks...