Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppose that Candidate Hoover was beckoned, pushed, coaxed or ordered into Indiana by Republican newspapers or by his own disapproval of the Watson regime, would, however, be foolish. More and more a political technologist, he did not enter Indiana until convinced by Publisher Oscar G. Foellinger of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel that there really was a chance of winning 17 or more Indiana delegates from Senator Watson. The Indiana primary law provides that whosoever wins a majority of the delegates, wins all, and Indiana's delegates total...
When Anne India had accomplished this much of her purpose, she was privileged one summer night to discover Rex sprawled like an inksplotch on the moon-white ground. Around him were empty bottles. From the shadows came uncouth sounds of snoring, soggy laughter, foolish crying. The villagers were still debauching; but Rex was dead...
...coal strike, current since October, ended last week. Wobbly Tom Connors, strike chief, announced that a statewide ballot (the second one cast within a month) was 88% in favor of returning to work. Another Wobbly leader gave the reason: "The slack season is upon us. It is foolish to strike when the bosses can meet the demand for coal by keeping a few scabs at work...
There were some paintings hung on the walls of a tiny room in the Anderson Galleries; other paintings, smaller ones, rested on cabinets or stood along the floor. The room was full of people, talking to each other in awed, foolish whispers. In the corner of the room sat a lady dressed in a black cloth coat, smiling like a severe Mona Lisa. She was Georgia O'Keeffe; the paintings on the wall belonged to her because she had made them; for some reason, the room seemed hers as well...
...college education. When this has had its effect, redheaded, eccentric Warren is a well-tamed professor; Sarah is a kind, sensible, placid young spinster; Wilma is married and faraway; Wilfred, who had especially liked rabbits or other animals, is dead in France. Wise Mrs. Bonney is dead too, and foolish, likable Mr. Bonney has inexplicably taken himself another wife. This humble, quiet homily, neither gay nor tragic, has a brown plainness of treatment to match its substance. It is a novel for those who do not mistake savagery for sincerity, rage or ribaldry for realism, who can bear with...