Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direction of Von Sternberg is as usual obvious because of its elusiveness. His China is unbelievably like the China we had always hoped to see; and once we have watched the Express crawl between the overhanging rafters of an ancient city, chasing foolish chickens before, it is difficult to accept a more prosaic film. To have seen Shanghai Lily looking like a caged imperial tiger as her black gown swirls about her is to have seen a figure that spoils one for lesser women...
...worried about this money hoarding. When we were on this subject the President looked directly and severely at me and asked me: "Write a joke against these hoarders. Humor might show 'em how foolish they are. Now, go do that." So after all my kidding about Hoover Commissions, I am finally on one, "The Hoover Anti-hoarding Joke Commission...
...credit, the hoarding of $1,500,000,000 is only a drop in the bucket. The banks have no God-given right to deposits. More than 2.300 of them failed in the country last year, tying up $2,000,000,000. If people want to hoard, however foolish the desire, it's their business. After all. the thing is to keep the people from going broke...
...right-hand man. He made all the symphonicky arrangements which earned the Whiteman orchestra its serious regard. Expensive radio stars had a hand in last week's concert : enormous Vaughn De Leath, announced as the first voice to go on the air; fat Morton Downey who looked foolish singing "Kiss Me Goodnight''; the four black Mills brothers huddled around a spikelike amplifier, knees quivering, sounding like a trumpet, a pair of saxophones and a tuba. The actual concert, save as it benefited unemployed musicians, was unimportant. But when bald, egg-shaped Ferde Grofe came sheepishly...
...thallium's peculiar properties is that it causes hair to fall out. Foolish women and masquerading criminals use it as a depilatory. For a while some orphan asylums used thallium pastes and pills to bare the heads of children infected with ringworm of the scalp...