Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid Paul Bunyan a handsome profit in addition to making the Onion River district loggable for him. Bunyan, Inkslinger and their deeds were times and times ago, of course, and Real America-the whole world, in fact- is now a very different place. But it would not be thought foolish or unmanly of the man now in charge of perfecting the U. S. agricultural industry if he were to long, now and then, for the return of Johnny Inkslinger and his incomparably astute ideas, especially on what to do with surplus farm produce. For the U. S. farm situation never...
...Stegg of Manila, P. I., reached Chicago last week to attend the Chicago Methodist Camp Meeting. Quickly he inspected the community, made a conclusion: ''Chicago is the most godless city in the world. . . . The fault lies not with flaming youth, but with men and women in their foolish, fat forties. Forty per cent of Chicago high school girls disapprove of petting. That is better than they did in my day, all of 30% better...
...whole of this is a melancholy thing which is unnecessary and foolish. Men who are going to be governors of states and responsible for administration ought to look ahead and understand the conditions under which alone evolution and change are possible...
...deliberately in the spring from their dens in the mountain lava cliffs to the valley farms, returning in the autumn. It is during these travels that they gnaw the butts of pine trees great and small. In some sections a huntsman would have no trouble killing 50 per day. Foolish is the huntsman who takes with him a dog. But for himself he need not worry. Legend to the contrary, porcupines cannot shoot or throw their quills. Only those get stuck who try to pinch or pat a porcupine...
...while it feeds, its eyes-large, nearsighted, goggling-are close together near the top of its head. Found from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, it is migratory, a fly-by-night beneath Spring and Autumn moons. Sportsmen find it hard to hit because of its erratic, dodging flight. But, foolish, it seldom flies far. Clumsy gunners can sometimes flush and shoot at the same woodcock a half-dozen, times. The female is larger than the male. Parent woodcock often carry their young clutched between their thighs (second-joints) when seeking fresh feeding grounds...