Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agitation for a new gymnasium and evidence has not been lacking that such a project is being seriously considered by the Corporation and the Planning Board. Perhaps Hemenway is to become obsolete in favor of something "bigger and better" in a different location. In that case it would be foolish to build a pool connected with the present gymnasium. The Planning Board may have this contingency in mind; but certainly no inkling of what it or the Corporation are considering has leaked out. Granting that some four or five months is not sufficient for formulating definite plans, students might...
Mussolini telegraphed the Prefect of Pisa to apologize to Cardinal Main for "the foolish violence against Catholic clubs, and express to him my profound sorrow...
...Haynes' thrillers, however, there is always this moral, that thousands of dollars in bribes taken from foolish bootleggers find their way into the United States Treasury, and in the end, having gulled the bootleggers, "the agent, alone in his office, enjoyed a hearty laugh...
Mussolini's dictatorial powers expire on December 31; unless he can, by his " electoral reform" cement his power over his Party before elections, he will either be dragged by his followers into some foolish coup d'état, or will find his Party outvoted in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, and his position intolerable...
...Contents. In An Autobiographical Foreword* the poet (whose personality is probably better known to a larger number of more diverse audiences than that of any other living American bard) devotes 28 pages to reminiscences of his youth, answering with kindly humor the thousand-and-one foolish questions any writer of prominence is always asked about himself and his work, and attacking the popular newspaper legend that pictures him as a noisy apostle of poetical jazz. He explains his love for Egypt; his admiration for Poe; his forbears; his reason for going on the road, a new beggar-troubadour, trading...