Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiment with the idea of being absolutely fair for a month or so? Why do you always make the President's statements very wise and important when we realize that they are seldom his own and then throw ridicule at Mr. Borah, who is foolish enough to try and be a politician and a Christian too, and who, of course, is barred from the Presidency because he is too big to let any group control...
...tell me what to do with my 22-year old son?" was the request in the dulcet tones of a fond but foolish mother. He is very mischievous and misbehaved, and I simply can't do a thing with him. Do you think it a good idea to put him on a boat under a stern old sea captain all summer and not permit him to land...
...private school he finds himself without the restrictions on his liberty which he encountered there. To be precipitately placed on one's own resources and forced to rely on one's own sense of responsibility after a life of prescribed conduct is disastrous to many an individual. It is foolish to assume that a boy arrives suddenly at an age which qualifies him to judge all things relating to his own conduct for himself. It is difficult to say how we may remedy a too paternalistic attitude on the part of families but private preparatory schools could administer progressively larger...
...case, the fact remains that a public issue has been made of the matter. Perhaps the ladies will have their way and perhaps they will not. At best it's a fifty fifty chance, which is not a very satisfactory state of affairs. They have been very foolish. Only a peek at the histories of Rome, France, or Bagdad would have shown that their method is not the way to sway Empires. A whisper in the right ear at the right time has always been much more effective than mountains of resolutions and cohorts of deputations. Publicity where an appointment...
Take pistol away from thug. Thug will try to shoot you just the same. Will feel foolish and hide his head...