Word: fool
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impressive though they are in print and picture, crowds do not fool the seasoned observer of politics. Any local boss, if given enough time, can organize a crowd to warm a candidate's heart. When that candidate happens to be the President of the U. S. public curiosity alone will render the boss's job relatively simple. This week the New York Times solemnly warned President Roosevelt that October crowds do not necessarily ripen into November votes, recalled the sad cases of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, both of whom drew record crowds...
...Peace has now virtually collapsed. Spunky little Belgium thinks that her only chance is to stand fearlessly neutral, as she did in 1914, but this time better prepared to fight. The Flemish element among King Leopold's subjects have always considered that his father, King Albert, was a fool for not selling to Kaiser Wilhelm II at a stiff price the right to let German troops peaceably cross Belgium to attack France. Whether His Majesty in any way now shares this view was entirely undisclosed last week, but in Antwerp especially pleased Flemings opined with widest smiles on their...
Have you ever snooped with a camera? Have you ever lain in wait for a famous fellow to make a fool of himself? Have you ever sneaked away with your camera under your coat felling sure that you have taken the one picture in millions that shows a true expression? Unusual pictures will be more and more in demand in the future, and the college is rich ground where they wait for an ogle-eyed photographer to find them...
...post-election Rooseveltian "message to the public" called The Election-An Interpretation. This year Publisher Macfadden, who no longer approves of Contributor Roosevelt's policies, came forward in his own person as a Republican possibility, announced with no false modesty that, if elected, he would annul "fool laws," put down "racketeers." Before the Cleveland Convention in June, Candidate Macfadden was briefly touted by friends, including Novelist Thomas Dixon. Depth of Mr. Macfadden's political thinking is indicated by his belief that Russia and Japan are planning early attacks...
...Quirinal Palace last week was called Sir Aldo Castellani, the great Anglo-Italian physician whose work as Sanitary High Commissioner for East Africa made Italians able to fool pessimists who said their army could never live and conquer amid the heat and pullulating pestilences of Ethiopia. Sir "Aldo's title of British knighthood was superseded as His Majesty conferred on him the hereditary Italian title Count of Chisimaio...