Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four years older than the President's arbitrary age limit for judicial appointees. He would not be eligible to retire with pay until he had served ten years and reached 74. Having made a fuss about judges retiring at 70, Franklin Roosevelt would make himself look foolish if he appointed Senator Robinson the first time he had an opportunity to name a Justice to the Supreme Court. Second, as New Dealers well know, Joe Robinson has on many occasions been a New Dealer more out of Party loyalty than conviction. His pre-New Deal record shows...
...There are no margin rules on the London Stock Exchange, because its members are too intelligent to need protection. Their freedom from restriction (and this applies to Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels) brought them business from residents of the U. S., who lived in a foolish country where it was necessary to put up 55% margin on the purchase of stocks bought on speculative account. London only wanted 20% or 25% and, in many cases, ran contango accounts with no margin at all.* So London took all these commissions from New York and, by a process that is a little obvious...
...damnedest sweetest people a man would ever hope to meet." Not everybody in Neighbor to the Sky could be called sweet, but both Author Carroll and her hero reach their last-page goal without changing their minds. Like her earlier novels of Maine (As the Earth Turns, A Few Foolish Ones), Author Carroll's latest is as sound and sweet as a good Baldwin apple...
...think it is foolish of the boy to withdraw from the Law School because of a small thing like this," Seavey said, "I understand perfectly well how the boy felt and I don't blame him in the least." He added that he had mailed a letter to the boy apologizing for the slur...
...unwise for foolish, impulsive men to commit acts trespassing on the agreement. Let me warn you also, there may be men among you who have wormed their way into positions of responsibility, who may advise us to take some wrongful action because they know that that action will bring trouble and confusion upon the union. "I ask you all to work in co-operation with your officers and shop stewards so that the obligations of your union may be liquidated in fullest degree...