Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church and her brother, who is in embroidery, comes home from Italy and an unhappy marriage. Immediately bored with Barchester, she invents a limp, steals a stuffy clergyman from a stuffy blonde, acts like a younger, cuter Sanger child and, in a magnificently anticlimactic scene, puts her foolish enemies to shame. Along with all this goes a little pleasant dialog, a little minor plotting, a great deal of patronizing archness on the part of the playwright and his actors...
Hurricane (Samuel Goldwyn). Since most Hollywood actors and many actresses look foolish when stripped down to a sarong, pictures requiring this type of undress are proverbially hard to cast. Producer Samuel ("The Touch") Goldwyn risked almost two million dollars on the talents of an unknown young actor and; a girl who a year ago was a $75-a-week stock player...
Pretensions of Science. "I am . . . convinced that science pursues a foolish and possibly fatal policy when it tries to keep up its bluff of omniscience in matters of which it is still woefully ignorant. Sooner or later the intelligent public is going to call that bluff, as it has already done in the case of ... other deflated specialists...
...Hollow, yes, like my mind. Dark, long thoughts envelop my brain fibres; the process of thinking is one constant torment, one anguish that has no end nor beginning. I'm not saying anything, foolish person; I am only feeling, feeling the pits of despondecy...
...have no suggestion really. Somebody might of course straighten the shelves in the reading room once in a while. A number of libraries have the foolish habit of cleaning dirty books, but it is a nasty job, involving an eraser and an elbow. Finally we do think that two weeks is more than long enough for a book to be charged out. We often weep at the distress of the student who finds Widener has a book, and indeed knows where it is, but can't get it for a month. A month is an con in an academic year...