Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eternal Father who hast begirt us round with loving care, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, and has committed to us rules of reason as holy messengers of Thine: Forgive our foolish ways, capture our truant thoughts, direct our wandering wills, as once again with contrite hearts we fling ourselves as penitents in utter self-abasement upon the world's great altar stairs of prayer that slope through darkness up to Thee. . . . Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." With this prayer by Chaplain ZeBarney Phillips the U. S. Senate began its deliberations one noon last week...
...Popolo d'Italia, in the course of a routine sermon on the evils of birth-control, pointed directly to the U. S.: "If the declining birthrate continues at its present rate in the U. S., the number of biers will surpass the number of cradles. Blind and foolish arc these ignorant destroyers who believe they can efficaciously combat the Depression by sterility. There are in the U. S. 11,500,000 Negroes of extraordinary fecundity. . . . The yellow peril is nothing. We will encounter an Africanized America, in which the white race will end by being suffocated by the fertile...
...arrested in the middle of the night, taken to jail and beaten. Edgar was expelled from his hospital; on the bandages of the patient he had just operated on was rubber-stamped: "I have been shameless enough to allow myself to be treated by a Jew." Gustav was foolish enough to go back to Germany where he was arrested, clapped in a concentration camp. When the Oppermanns got themselves together again in Switzerland they were no longer solid German citizens: Martin would begin again in England, Edgar in Paris; Berthold was dead; Gustav was dying...
This has carried me into a discussion of those who join lobbies, of those who fight corruption, and of those who have actually mixed in politics. It is foolish to think of any student group bucking corruption or in any other way making a dent in the political set-up as it exits today. But where the student can find his way behind the scenes, where he can fight some political grafter, where he can make his mark felt, he ought to participate to some degree, NOT because he is entering politics or public life or in any other...
...There were embarrassing documents in the record. One was a telegram he had sent to Mr. Hanshue: "Still have hopes General will approve your high bid. ... If he renders decision giving you contract under low bid, accept first checks under protest and file claim for the difference. This seems . . . foolish but it is a precedent in-the general's office. ... If nothing happens first next week my father and I will see McCarl again." A letter written after the contract had been approved presented a bill for $15.000 "for the specific services you instructed...