Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clergyman, boiled up beneath his Presbyterian upbringing and over into melon-snitching, horse-borrowing, neighbor-baiting pestiferation that earned him many beatings and an early discharge from Dartmouth College. Posturing as a ship's doctor, he went off to sea. A sharp, overweening tongue landed him in irons, foolish but innocent. At home again, penniless, he calculated his next plan for a career more thoughtfully. He stole some of his father's sermons and marched off under an assumed name looking for an empty pulpit. With admirable casuistry, he told himself that, since men liked to be preached...
...would be foolish to say that criminals are never insane, for their very careers suggest that they have not minds of normal balance. But there is a great difference between temporary derangement and complete mental disorder. Men with the cleverness to commit crimes and then put on sufficient cunning to evade the demands of justice can hardly be adjudged insane in the ordinary sense of the term. The Lone Wolf has tried his wiles and failed. A Daniel sat in judgment over him. Such a decision is important in reestablishing the power...
...story of police interference where the police have no right to interfere. Pretending to be patriotic and vigilant, the authorities merely have shown themselves to be ridiculous and meddlesome. The play of the human spirit and freedom of thought, even of foolish thought, cannot be left in the hands of those whose only business it is to protect life and property and maintain order. The human mind is not meant for the safe-keeping of the police...
...Fools Day in all their foolish cant...
...classroom men constantly enjoy the best obtainable presentation of more conservative attitudes. It can only be a foolish fear of having a comfortable system upset that shrinks from hearing an able statement of radical views. The intellectual stimulation obtained from radical outside speakers can hardly be too frequent; and if there is little active official encouragement to their appearance, the more reason to seize the occasion when it is offered...