Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pecheur D'Islande" is a conscientious rendition of Pierre Loti's moving tragedy, but somewhat of a disappointment for those whose expectations were proportioned to the magnitude of the classic original. In part, at least, the inferiority is the result of a foolish shift of emphasis, naturally invited by the new medium, from the great, basic ideas of the drama to the incidental episodes...
...character named John Q. Dohp. He appeared first in the reel about the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes. After the customary parade of giggling prizewinners had explained how happy they were and what they planned to do with their money, John Q. Dohp, as a sweepstakes loser, wagged his head in foolish disappointment, explained he had been buying sweepstakes tickets for many years but still hoped to win eventually. Two weeks later, in a reel about Manhattan socialites parading on Easter, John Q. Dohp appeared again, this time as an incongruous and loutish rustic, wobbling along in a plug hat much...
When he meets young Christoph Kroysing, Berlin's self-pity vanishes. Kroysing had discovered some fellow-non-coms were selling army rations instead of distributing them to their hungry men; he had been so foolish as to write an influential uncle about it. Of course his letter was stopped by the censor, and he was threatened with court martial. Kroysing would have welcomed the chance to testify, but the court martial was indefinitely postponed, and he was transferred to a dangerous advanced post, kept there on the supposition that sooner or later he would be killed. Day after...
...real enjoyment. In the first act of Madame Butterfly it is obvious to any onlooker that Pinkerton is making love to Cho-Cho-San. Curving melody flows from the orchestra while he sings, "Just like a little squirrel are all her pretty movements." To many Tristan would seem foolish delivering a literal translation of his part in the exalted love duet. The music would be reaching its grandest climax while he would be singing, "Thou Isolde, Tristan I. No more Tristan, no more Isolde...
Taking the cue from Dr. Rice, the huge, proletarian New York Daily News forthwith launched an editorial campaign. It was criminal and foolish, said the News, to withhold from the public a full & free knowledge of venereal prophylaxis. The News soon discovered that the subject was alive with reader interest. Many of the paper's 2,900,000 purchasers wrote in to praise it for frankness and public spirit. Others denounced the paper for encouraging immorality. And a few News readers told how they had contracted tragic ailments for want of proper information...