Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Salzman mind his tongue, or his manners, or something equally foolish...
...print this at all you'll probably caption it: "puerile"-"asinine"-"ridiculous" or with some such invective. Then your editor will add a note: "Let Reader Salzman mind his tongue or his manners or something equally foolish...
...omnivorous reader, he says of his hero "Within a period of ten years he read at least 20,000 volumes." After futile searches for "a place to write," Thomas Wolfe is at present living in Brooklyn. Says Eugene, in autobiographical disgust: " 'To write'-to be that most foolish, vain, and impotent of all impostors, a man who sought the whole world over 'looking for a place to write', when, he knew now with every naked, brutal penetration of his life 'the place to write' was Brooklyn, Boston, Hammersmith, or Kansas-anywhere on earth...
Discontent has reared its head and petitioners are canvasing the Yard in an attempt to win more converts. The cause is the recent Freshman elections which they claim are undemocratic and foolish...
...drew up at the door of No. 2 Holyoke Place, Secret Service men leaped to surround him, then looked foolish. In a nearby dormitory one of Harvard's bright young men had set off a firecracker in honor of the President's arrival. In marched Franklin Roosevelt to dine in Harvard's Fly Club...