Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herndon wrote again & again, a great man, a noble man, but also a human being, ambitious, shrewd, successful, passionate, with a man's share of disappointments, of humiliations, of unhappy love affairs, and with more than most men's share of melancholy. He was a foolish father, a browbeaten husband, at once sentimental and hard; a secretive man with his human share of stupidities and perplexities, his career marked, like all men's, with its broken friendships and its grotesque blunders. The Lincoln Herndon knew was a thoughtful, dry man whose wife's temper...
Although the swimming situation at Harvard looks more favorable today than it ever has, foolish indeed would be the prophet who would predict a clean state of victories for the Crimson squad without looking at the records of opponents to come...
TAKE FRIENDLY ADVICE DON'T BE AGAIN FUNNY NOR BLUFF ME. AINT OPPOSING ANYTHING BUT WILL WAIT COMMITTEE REPORT. TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOUR HEALTH. REFUSING ANSWER FURTHER FOOLISH COMMUNICATIONS...
...seems foolish to have to point out that playing the desperate game of international sanctions, believing that "the best way to stay out of war is not being afraid to go into it," and believing that war is inevitable anyway are the surest means of getting us involved in European and Asiatic difficulties. The only way to stay at peace in time of crisis is for every American to believe it is possible for his country to stay at peace. . . . Nalum Z. Medulla...
...yachts. Last month he had a singular stroke of luck. Living aboard his trim 58-ft. schooner yacht Aafje in San Pedro harbor was a lighthearted, thin-haired sportsman named Dwight L. Faulding. The owner of a Santa Barbara photo shop and hotel, Dwight Faulding was once rich and foolish enough to have bought a plane which he took up without a single flying lesson, crashed spang into a Santa Barbara street...