Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York] Evening Post's comment on Mr. Hutchinson's past. This paragraph is irrelevant, immaterial and decidedly unsportsmanlike, and the article would have been as readable and as informative with this comment omitted. I agree that the trip, especially with his family, was a foolish undertaking, and merits condemnation, but to rehash the past when a man is trying to rehabilitate himself is akin to striking him when he is down (and in more ways than one). Mr. Hutchinson may be the publicity seeker: he may even have beamed with delight over some of his notoriety...
...officeholder mired in the backwaters of political money-spending sympathized with Dr. Norris' growl: "The whole thing is picayune. It is easier for the large departments to get a million dollars than it is for my small department to get $10. In pursuit of its penny-wise-&-pound-foolish policy, the city threatens to handicap seriously the work the medical examiner's office is supposed to perform...
...apology when he writes: "Living is a horizontal fall. But for that fixative, a life completely and continually conscious of its speed would become intolerable. It allows the man condemned to death to sleep. . . . Opium gave me this fixative. Without opium all projects, marriages, travels, seem to me as foolish as if some one falling from a window wished to get into touch with the people in the rooms which he passed...
...upon chain. He it was who negotiated the famed $50,000,000 Loew's deal for William Fox. Natty, chipmunkish Fixer Blumenthal boasts that after months of dickering he was finally able to close the deal because he correctly interpreted scraps of a conversation he overheard between two foolish daughters of a cinema tycoon who did not know what they were talking about. Wall Street thinks that it was Fixer Blumenthal who arranged the compromise by which William Fox was ousted from his company (for $18,000,000 plus $500,000 annually for five years) in favor...
When newsmen at Zurich, Switzerland last week wondered why Professor Auguste Piccard continued to postpone his balloon ascension into the stratosphere, even when weather appeared favorable, the long-haired, long-necked Belgian professor told them: "I promised Mme Piccard that I would not do anything foolish." In fact Mme Piccard, whose fifth child was born a few months ago, once made her husband promise not to make the flight at all. That was last year, just after he and his assistant, Charles Kipfer, had ballooned 51,700 ft. into the heavens- higher than man had ever before climbed...