Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very great literary artist" but his tremendous vocabulary was often no help in describing uncongenial modern things. Shaw would suggest the right word, whereupon Morris would gasp with relief. Morris was infuriated with hecklers at debates, while Shaw courted them, so that Shaw would be put forward to demolish foolish questioners while Morris would retreat to the background, pulling his mustache and growling, "Damfool! Damfool!" Such assistance made Shaw feel as though he had given "a penny to a millionaire who has bought a newspaper and found his pockets empty." Spending much time in Morris' home, where the only...
...this excitement is displayed against the familiar Goldberg background of monstrous art & architecture. Like so many successful newspapermen, Rube Goldberg started in San Francisco. In 1907 he went to Manhattan, got a job illustrating sports for the Evening Mail. By chance he one day filled out his space with Foolish Question No. 1, which showed a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he were hurt. Comeback: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business." Thousands of subsequent Foolish Questions were published, followed...
...Class 1 U. S. railroads carried 53,202,296 tons of less-than-carload freight shipments. By 1935 volume had fallen 74% to 14,036,154 tons. Chief reason was the competition of highway trucking. Truckmen claim that railroads are foolish to bemoan the decline because the roads must handle such freight at a loss anyway. But railroadmen want all the business they can get. Last January, in an attempt to recoup, railroads in the West and Southwest got Interstate Commerce Commission approval for a "store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks...
...thought of his fellow candidates: "Mr. Roosevelt, with the almost hysterical blessing of Labor, is going into office without any mandate. . . . There is not even the absolute certainty that Roosevelt would be a week or two later in calling out the troops in strikes than Landon. . . . It is foolish for the labor unions to waste more of their good money on the Roosevelt campaign. Jim Farley has done a beautiful job. . . . Governor Landon is a nice fellow who is over his head. . . . Colonel Knox is overstating his case so consistently that he is wrong even when he is right. . . . Browder...
...coat pocket, and still have room for Karl Marx; the scene in which he philosophizes to Belinda is worth the rest of the film. The picture on the whole, is not up to the standard of the famous team. However, besides being a telling commentary on a foolish fad, "Soak the Rich" is more than average entertainment...