Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only a foolish strategist would reveal where he intends to yield ground if pressed. In his shiplined study Franklin Roosevelt, alone in all Washington, knew exactly what legislation he was ready to let go by the board as the price for starting Congress homeward by the end of this week...
...which was the more pleasant because it was so leisurely, the more adventurous because it contrasted so sharply with the sleepy green countryside through which the horses pulled the boats. Against a detailed and wholly charming background, made up of boaters' quarrels and friendships, their odd songs and foolish curses, their contempt for hogs as cargo, their obstreperous pride in getting drunk and having fights, the picture outlines an incident which fits perfectly into the nostalgic mood which its surroundings have produced. It is the surprisingly touching story of a farm boy (Henry Fonda), working as a boater because...
...widely on the fact that, though the TVA decision represented the unanimous opinion of one Republican and two Democratic judges, in both the AAA and PWA decisions a lone Democrat dissented from two Republican colleagues. Such finger-pointing caused the judicial New York Times to observe: "It would be foolish to contend that no judge is ever swayed in his judicial work by old party affiliations. Yet it is safe to say that very few judges would permit themselves to be moved from what they really believe to be the honest interpretation of the law by any such things." President...
...seven years Mrs. Fury struggled desperately to keep her son Peter in college, where he was studying for the priesthood. A big. middle-aged Irish woman, proud, foolish, intense, domineering, Mrs. Fury had known poverty all her life, hut had never lost her spirit, controlled her magnificent temper, or grown resigned to the ways and morals of the squalid district of the English seaport where she lived. She had met her husband. Dennis, when she jumped from an excursion steamer to save a child, had been saved in turn by him. Strict and unforgiving, she had closed the door...
Forty years ago Detective Cornish, a stolid, hard-working country boy, entered Scotland Yard, trained for three weeks before being sent out to the dives and alleys of crime-ridden Whitechapel. There was no romance, little excitement about the first murder case on which he worked: two thugs killed foolish little Emily Farmer while robbing her tobacco shop, were discovered after a systematic check of all suspicious characters in the neighborhood...