Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is not a strike." cautioned anxious Secretary of Labor Perkins. "The Iron & Steel Institute seems to be several steps ahead of the program. I hope they will not do anything foolish and against the public interest themselves. I hope they do not get nervous and panicky...
...along unknown and unpredictable paths . . . each in a different direction, whereof we can merely deduce the radial component at some long past instant. . . . The popular statements as to the distances of stars and nebulae, the size of the galaxy, and especially the 'expansion of the universe'. . . are foolish...
...early years of the 19th Century, when England was ruled by the fat and foolish Prince of Wales, when Beau Brummell set the fashions, when Byron was revelling in the popular success of Childe Harold, a sprightly young lady named Harriette Dubochet, who had run away from home to become a prostitute, was at the height of her career. Very small with brown hair and large eyes, the daughter of a well-to-do stocking-mender, her life as a courtesan was not sufficiently distinguished to win her a place in history. She exercised no political influence, such...
...Fellow, the way for us to lick the stuffing out of the old parties is to become militant and go after them hammer and tongs for being totally incompetent, as we know they are. . . . We should begin ... to talk about the 'Townsend Party,' not wait in the foolish hope that one of the old groups will adopt us. If they do, they will treat us like poor adopted trash. To hell with them...
Fuad's father was Ismail the Magnificent, a foolish spendthrift who dissipated himself out of the khediveship, under Turkish rule. When Ismail's oldest living son died in 1917 as sultan, his son in turn declared that since he had the best wife and the best horse in the world, he did not want to succeed his father. Thereupon the British Army of Occupation skipped to the youngest of Ismail's twelve children, chose Fuad to be sultan and in 1922 made him King of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, the Sudan, Kordofan and Darfur. Thus the great...