Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Feeble and foolish though all this was, it was enough to thrill all China with the rumor that the Great Wu had stirred himself, would presently arise to sweep the Japanese out of North China. Significantly Japanese Army officers, who normally love nothing better than a good provoking "incident," disclaimed all interest in the episode, described it as a "small mutiny" in the Chinese armies...
...Take your young priest, called largely on account of his youth and supposed harmlessness, and placed in charge of a parish. Now this parish contains, as many do, a dowager of some wealth, decided (though foolish) opinions, a rather overpowering presence, and a surpassing supply of vulgar bad manners which she complacently regards as frank common sense. ... As such dowagers, male and female, are fairly common in our milieu, shouldn't the priest be pre-advised just how to mingle firmness and kindness so as to persuade this particular pest either to pipe down or to jump...
...unhappy Columbus convention-goers had scarcely departed for their homes before an enterprising young socialite in Manhattan made them look foolish. Three months ago Mrs. Winthrop Neilson Jr., trim, dark-haired daughter-in-law of a vice president of Aluminum Co. of America, undertook to put on a series of radio programs for the New York Junior League, in order to publicize the League's children's plays. Mrs. Neilson wrote the scripts, Junior Leaguers took the parts, Station WINS gave them 15 minutes weekly. Soon National Broadcasting Co. took notice. Last week NBC signed Mrs. Neilson...
...modicum of money when they want to go abroad. Last week 86 privileged Nazi tourists arrived in Manhattan aboard the S. S. Stuttgart with spending money of $20 each, supposed to last five days. Said sturdy Franz Luppe, superintendent of a Dessau brewery, "Some of my countrymen are foolish enough to waste their money on banana splits...
...closefisted grubbers; so did everyone else but the no-account Linscotts. But the Bragdons had never been whiffle-minded, and Gus was the least whiffle-minded of the lot. He went his taciturn way, refused to get religion, left the church when his brethren's intolerance got too foolish for him. He worked long hours, salted away his cash, traded shrewdly in wood lots...