Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Below the Line. Rin-Tin-Tin is the favorite movie actor of a number of people. Such people will be highly gratified with the latest model. What matters it if the melodrama is wild and foolish? The dog saves the old woman about to be throttled by her wicked son; the dog vanquishes a pack of bloodhounds...
...plane moved so fast that it seemed foolish to suppose that the solemn and magnificent music bore any relation to its maneuvers. Suddenly it banked, began to plunge down. An officer on Mitchell Field watched it descend. This machine, a 1,400 horsepower Curtiss racer, with a wingspan of only 22 feet, had been sent up for its first official speed test. Its manufacturers believed that it could travel 255 miles an hour. In it Lieut. Alford J. Williams had on an ancient shirt, greased with the smuts of innumerable flights ? a good luck shirt. If he had good...
...Shenandoah. He referred last week to the report that eight of the 18 safety valves in the ship's gas bags had been removed before her trip: '. would not call it murder, but I cannot put it too strong that if it had not been for the foolishness in cutting down the number of safety valves the crash would not have occured .... Now there will be a whitewash board of inquiry and some camouflage to cover up the real story of the cause which was the foolish action of the crew at the station in changing the valves. Already they...
...made her exit as a faded Ophelia in the copper-lined bathtub. Tireless, generous Maggie at last gave birth-to a mortal cancer. Victor fended off decrepitude with cold plunges and Lily's listless adulation, but the Wilmington debutantes thought him more and more an old foolish, with his hoary jokes and palsied, piddling gallantry...
Although Mr. Coolidge coyly shrinks from the legitimate motion picture, he blandly confesses that news reels are all right. Now news reels are not all right. If Mr. Coolidge knew how unutterably foolish they have made him appear on occasion, his feelings would be quite reversed. Evidently it doesn't embarrass him to kiss seven fat babies before the steady lens of the camera, but how must it embarrass the babies. Mr. Coolidge has been photographed with everything from a Jersey cow to a Blackfoot Indian. He is the greatest star of the news reel...