Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room of the "Royale Hotel" on the Island of Caprice off the Coast of France; the second act is for the most part confined to a boudoir of the same hotel. The motivation of the plot is provided by the refusal of an arbitrary young heiress to marry the foolish Lord Islington. To escape the marriage she persuades the young Prince Paul De Morlaix to pose as her husband. Everything works smoothly until suspicion necessitates the two young people to occupy the same room overnight. The sophisticated musical comedy patron will not become too hopeful over such a situation...
...recent survey conducted at Columbia shares a unanimous sentiment among national leaders in public life, industry, and education favoring the re-instatement of German in the secondary curriculum. If the elimination of Germanic studies was a foolish manifestation of war-time hysteria, to allow public prejudice and the negligence of school authorities to block its return is but a perfect example of the old story, cutting off one's nose to spite one's face...
...turn out a Conservative Government which, he said, had hamstrung England's trade with Russia and provoked the U. S. by bunglesome handling of the Coolidge naval limitations proposal. From this the spellbinder swung through a long transition to the surprising statement that the Conservatives "made a foolish, reckless settlement of the British debt to America [in 1923] without waiting for an international settlement which would have wiped out all debts and started the world afresh...
Strange indeed have been the noises issuing from the Copland-Sessions Concerts in Manhattan since last spring, when Composers Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions inaugurated them as a clearinghouse for untried music of their contemporaries. Formidably foolish, almost awesome, appeared the prospect of a Copland-Sessions concert next week, with music by Virgil Thomson, text by Gertrude Stein...
Great Russian writers are Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Dostoievsky-products all of the first days when Russia dared declare herself artistically, when French frippery first seemed foolish and the longings of the Slavic soul important. Great Russian composers are Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky. They too with Glinka. Balakirev and Cui were pioneers in the school of realism. Yet compared with the less Russian Tchaikovsky their fame has spread so slowly that even today outside Russia Moussorgsky is known for his Boris Godounov alone and that in the refined version of Rimsky-Korsakov made popular by Basso Feodor Chaliapin...