Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concluded Mr. Lloyd George: "I need hardly add that I never uttered many of the observations, some of them extremely foolish, attributed to me in these diaries. But that is the way of most diarists, and I have suffered a good deal in the last few years from a variety of them. Words used in jest are treated as if in earnest; words seriously used are torn from their context and therefore having a different meaning, the essentially qualifying phrases invariably being omitted; and then in the inevitable defects of human memory when sentences taken from conversations which lasted...
...ancient long-respected knights and statesmen are drawn, quartered and made into sandwiches on wry bread buttered with rancid satire, it has pleased Author Russell to remember one of the old giants whose grotesqueries serve only to make him more magnificent, whose gaieties and gambles with disaster, whose foolish posings and conceited gestures, only make more regrettable the decay of so splendid and so irregular a period as that in which he flourished...
...since the scholastic records of Harvard compare not unfavorably with those of Princeton, the text must be found in other sources than the punching of time clocks. It would hardly be safe ground to presume that Harvard undergraduates read more quickly than those of Princeton likewise would it be foolish to announce arbitrarily that powers of assimilation are variable in given groups of young men. He who requires explanations with his argument must needs seek elsewhere. Unless he seizes upon the enormous reading facilities-including both space for readers and books to read-of Widener he will be faced with...
...help of Professor Chauncy Brewster Tinker, Yale authority on Boswell; perhaps also with the help of Geoffrey Scott, biographer of "Zelide" and translator of her stories. After publication the papers will be occasionally open to view, that scholars who wish to scrutinize the actual writing of a vain, foolish, careful, idolatrous and preposterous genius...
However he is honest and gentlemanly enough to apologize to me for calling me "foolish" because I disagree with...