Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department's foolish shipments caused great annoyance to the S. 0. S. When extra long piles were needed for piers, they were sent over?sawed in pieces to fit between a ship's bulkheads. General Pershing had to order a halt on such nonessentials as "bath bricks, bath tubs, bookcases, cuspidors, floor wax, stepladders, lawn mowers, sickles, stools and window shades." Winter clothing for troops did not arrive until long after the first snows...
...turbid ebb and flow of human tragedy along with divisionals. The Vagabond at such a time is wont to cram his briar, lounge in a chair and stare at the smoke as it floats in fragile clouds to the ceiling. A college generation is passing. That this is all foolish sentimentalism he realizes, but nevertheless, it is a mood that will not be denied. He has never quite brought himself to the realization that change is the strongest son of life. What was it Omar said. "Ah take the cash and let the small change go?" It wasn't quite...
...Journal, watchdog for the U. S. medical profession which examines every patent medicine and household medicament, has been sniffing at this proprietary bone for some time. The philosophy of the Journal, and of the American Medical Association, is to keep foolish people from doctoring themselves where a doctor is really needed. The family medicine chest can become, in its philosophy, a Pandora's box of evil...
...Representatives at Harrisburg, Pa. relative to the introduction of several anti-firearms bills, by some such men as Mr. Witkins of Philadelphia, who, I feel sure, knows little or nothing about firearms and especially revolvers and pistols, or their different uses and misuses, or he would not be so foolish as to think or at least have some of the public think that crime can be curbed by the passage of such bills as House Bill No. 460 introduced...
...Senate rose Ohio's eloquent Marcus Alonzo Hanna who had not forgotten the $250,000 campaign promise. Between thumb & finger, high over his head, he brandished his stamp. Upon it was pictured smoking Momotombo. Senator Hanna sonorously asked his colleagues if they would be so foolish as to build a canal in the shadow of this volcano. Startled, frightened, they bolted the Nicaraguan plan. Theodore Roosevelt's 50-mile "big ditch" went through Panama...