Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harold McGugin in the meantime was too smart to remain unknown. In 1926 he was elected to the Kansas Legislature. He promptly proposed a law forbidding Kansans to eat mince pie. It was foolish but it made Kansans see the folly of their law against cigarets. Legislator McGugin made his political name by getting Kansas' anti-cigaret law repealed...
Harvard last week received another token of the esteem in which it is held by Cambridge, Mass. To curb the "foolish, rampaging, nitwit Harvard students who break out into a riot now and then," Councilman Charles H. Shea proposed in Council that the city buy six horses (at $200 each) for its police. Said he: "We need mounted police for the Harvard students. I don't know if they are Communists, Bolsheviks or nuts, but we should be ready to cope with them...
Cambridge isn't going to take any chances with the "foolish, rampaging, nitwit Harvard students who break out into a riot now and then." The City Council voted unanimously to add to its list of stalwarts, six of the finest horses that money can buy, and if that doesn't fix those naughty boys, then nothing ever will...
...Liberal Club are uncontrolled by any outside national or international organization. Indeed, Fascists, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, and Communists are given full play; and when one realizes that the Communists include only about one-fourth of the total membership in the Club, it may be seen how utterly foolish it is to link the NSL, with the Liberal Club...
...letters in Wednesday's CRIMSON betray a confused state of mind with regard to German Fascism which should be clarified. The idea is called "foolish" "that Hitler is the hired tool of capitalism." Since the author of the letter himself does not challenge the correctness of the NSL interpretation of Hitlerism as the dictatorship of big business, we can hardly quarrel with him, but in order that "the more skeptical readers of the CRIMSON" be relieved of their doubts, he suggests that the NSL study the German situation on the spot for four years. Inasmuch as we have only...