Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappear. ... As for vocabulary . . . the effect of college . . . appears to be almost negligible and in some cases positively injurious. ... To a senior with average score the word benighted means weary, recreant means diverting and spurious means foamy. Possibly the fact that he takes the word assiduous to mean foolish may help explain his case...
Next day the physicians made Mrs. Sanger appear foolish in Washington and gave the Senators a good excuse to put her off. The doctors decided that not yet did they want anything to do officially with Birth Control...
Bear Brush vigorously opposed abolition of short selling. If no bears sold against foolish bidding or covered when there was foolish selling, he said, there would be "terrific swings" in the market. "The use of dummy names has advantages and disadvantages. If word got round that some bad actor was selling short, the market might fall out of bed." He said that pushing a stock up is as bad as pushing it down -"especially if it's done just at the close of day's market. The fellow out on Keokuk tells his brother over a stein...
...News and, it can be fairly said, a large part of the student body, hope sincerely that the Class of 1935 will keep its pledge, and that it will realize that by so doing it is refusing to make a foolish attempt at rejuvenating a dying custom. --Yale News...
...There have been foolish threats and disturbances when it was announced that we were going to give O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," and Synge's "Playboy of the Western World." Just because they depict life realistically and do not hesitate to show the sordid, several self-constituted censors have proposed that we should omit the performances from our repertoire. On the grounds of morality they object to "Juno" because it pictures living conditions among the poor, and in it no Irish girl has an illegitimate child, and of course, no Irish girl would have an illegitimate child. Objections...