Word: delusional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To the antipapist English press of the period, Pierce's next move was meat for scandal. In 1849, only a short time after he had tried unsuccessfully to get a cardinal's hat, he made another spectacular switch ("my allegiance to Rome was a culpable delusion"), sued Cornelia...
4. The United Nations has decided to take action in both the Middle East and Hungary, and by so doing, it has set for itself the test which will determine whether it becomes the world's hope for peace and law, or the world's well-intentioned delusion.
A Tragic Delusion. "It will be a tragic delusion to imagine that the problem can be 'solved.' The enlistment of 200,000 or more new teachers a year between now and 1959 would absorb about half the total recipients of bachelor degrees in that period. In view of...
¶ Texan Jack Burke Jr. had his own system for standing the gaff of five days of nerve-twanging match play in the Professional Golfers Association championship at Canton, Mass. He pretended that the standard 4½-in. cup was actually two inches larger. This happy delusion kept his chip...
Like many of his other plays, this one is a comedy-fantasy with serious underpinning; it is a sort of religio-moral allegory in which people "practice charity the poetic way" by doing "welfare work for the soul" through illusion, collusion and delusion. The idea yields an intriguing story, but...