Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crops and weather statisticians who report almost daily to Washington the crop and weather conditions in those States. The President could have got in ten minutes, without cost, from his Secretary of Agriculture more information about crops and weather conditions than he got in his ten-days foolish frolic through the West at a cost to the taxpayers of thousands of dollars. Expense seems to count for little with this Administration...
...hair and clean his buckles.' A descendant of a long line of ministers 'was spoilt by a residence in Virginia, where he became dissipated'; two others became drunkards without faring so far. One committed suicide shortly after graduation, two went insane, a fourth was 'burnt to death by foolish sport after election day playing with squibs,' and a fifth was murdered...
...Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle, where the survey began, Dr. Tugwell reassured a gathering of farm experts by declaring: "All this talk about depopulating the Great Plains is foolish. We don't want to depopulate the country. We want to fortify it to withstand drought...
President of the congress was Sir Walter Citrine, once a most trusted British working-class leader whom many now consider foolish for having accepted knighthood at the hands of King George. In an exciting keynote address Sir Walter indicted Fascism as "lawless, aggressive imperialism which recognizes no right but the armed force it commands!" However, Sir Walter said: "It is a delusion to imagine that the Labor movement is opposed to war in all circumstances," ended with a stirring battle cry for the League of Nations' friends to fight...
...story darts from 1933 to 1902, from 1902 to 1928, from the years of the War to the time of the British General Strike, a queer cast of characters takes shape. Anthony's insincere, foolish fa ther, his boyhood friends, Mark Staithes and Brian Foxe, his first mistress, Mary Amberley who is Helen's malicious, unscrupulous mother, Beppo Bowles, an aging homosexual, all appear and play their parts in forming the combination of interests, prejudices, dislikes, inhibitions, standards, that make up Anthony's character. Sometimes they merely exert a negative influence, as when Anthony recoils in disgust...