Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seemingly the newsvendors thought this pleasantry excruciating. When decorum was at last restored. Lord Lee said, in dead earnest: "It would be foolish to pretend that at this moment all is as well as it should be or as it has been between England and America. But as one who has been in charge of the British Admiralty's policy and a member of the Cabinet, it seems to me that there is much that is unreal, even absurd, in this naval controversy...
...clock on the morning of Nov. 7, every stockmarketeer knew that the promised Hoover Market had arrived. Stocks opened 2 to 5 points above the close on Election eve, an advance which financial writers hailed as "sensational." It was a reckless and foolish squandering of a potent adjective. Last week, when the Hoover Market had attained truly "sensational" proportions, writers had no words to describe it. They had recourse to figures...
Thus, the Hoover market. Like its predecessor, the much-loved, much-criticized Coolidge market, it is the joy of bulls, despair of bears. Will it last? Will it break? Foolish bulls or stubborn bears...
...believe that it is an insult, a coldblooded insult. . . . It is a foolish attempt to get the American workingman to believe that the Democratic Party under my leadership is going to prostrate him, drive his children out of his house and leave him helpless and homeless. What a stupid performance-of all the men in the world to urge that against a man who came up from the ranks of labor himself, and if elected President I am going to drive them all out of their home...
George S. Kaufman's book is far from being good and the plot of the show is too foolish to mention. There are songs and dancing, the former less remarkable than the latter. But Harpo, when he is through playing the harp, peers like a prisoner through the strings of his instrument; he pursues a girl quietly wherever she goes; his are light fingers as well as light touch and he picks pockets with dexterous greed; on meeting a new person, he offers his leg to be held and he whistles strangely...