Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found and foolish love of self...
...Want a Policeman (by Rufus King & Milton Lazarus; Francis Curtis, Richard Myers, producers) runs true to the form of latter-day stage mysteries which, unable to compete with the range and detail of cinema thrillers, depend for their excitement upon foolish exaggeration and lots of low comedy. For almost three acts, I Want a Policeman is motivated by the fact that every time somebody tries to tell somebody else how rich Mr. Davidson died, nobody will listen. Meanwhile, a boob policeman (Harold Moffet), a silly Englishwoman (Estelle Winwood) and an eccentric youngster (Clinton Sundberg) try for laughs...
...vilifying the Republic & Napoleon? . . . You admire Hitler whose intentions towards France are so evident he has caused Britain to drop her isolation ... & Mussolini who for ten years was making trouble for France. . . . Your aim is not patriotism as you say; that is merely the snare to catch the foolish & to set yourselves up in the selfish & feudal powers & privileges of your party. It is your party that counts, not France, nor its peasants & petit bourgeois. . . . And you would bring war (not of defense, which is right & just) misery & distress, as though we have not suffered enough with our four invasions...
Questioned concerning his views of the Townsend Plan the governor replied flatly. "It's crazy. It's a gold brick. I think it will die out. It's too foolish to live. There are approximately ten million people eligible. At the late of $200 a month per person it would about to 24 billion a year, just about half the present income. It would cheapen our money, so that in a year's time the $200 a month would pay just about $30 rent and eventually the money wouldn't be worth anything. If we could get security that cheap...
...Berlin Staatsoper and at the Paris Opéra-Comique. New Yorkers saw her last week as a slender, graceful young woman of 32 who had so thoroughly absorbed the role that there was scarcely a detail left unfinished. She could be fluttery and childlike without seeming foolish. She could be wistful and shy and still suggest a certain brave dig nity. Her Un bel di vedremo was perfectly patterned to describe Butterfly's faith in Lieutenant Pinkerton's return, her defiant refusal to believe that he could have for gotten her. Other Butterflies have sung the aria...