Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, is in apt aphorisms: ''Two resolute men acting in concord may transform an Empire, but an ordinarily resourceful duck can escape from a dissentient rabble"; "To regard all men as corrupt is wise, but to attempt to discriminate among their various degrees of iniquity is both foolish and discourteous...
First cinema appearance of "New Face" Parkyakarkus was in Strike Me Pink (1936), as Eddie Cantor's stooge. As freakish, though not so foolish, as his soubriquet, Parkyakarkus is really Harry Einstein, a onetime Boston advertising writer who, when his friends found his Greek dialect monologs at parties hilariously funny, decided to merchandise his specialty. Response to a few local broadcasts encouraged him to apply for a spot on the nationwide radio hour of Funnyman Cantor, whom he had met socially. From radio, he went to Hollywood. "Parkyakarkus" is an adaptation of the informal invitation with which Dr. Einstein...
...This rash and foolish plan [is] a real danger to the established neutrality policy of this nation. The unfortunate war victims . . . might easily be used for propaganda purposes by groups actively seeking sympathy for the Communist-Socialist regime of the Madrid-Valencia government. This crafty scheme is clearly an attempt to becloud an issue the truth of which Americans are at last learning, namely, that the Soviet-supported 'Loyalist' regime, in order to deceive the world of its real anti-Christian objective, is trying to make out that Franco's government is anti-Catholic because the Rebels...
Professor Friedrich Schonemann of the University of Berlin, onetime instructor at Harvard, tried to quiet the Nazi howling. He declared: "I think it is rather foolish and at the same time dangerous on the part of a certain section of the German press to indulge in wholesale criticism of the United States. [Because of] long continued British propaganda plus in recent years skilful Communist and Jewish propaganda . . . public opinion in America could be mobilized for war against Germany within a few hours...
...Coach Tatum's implication that fencing is not a sufficiently exciting sport without bloodshed, other college fencing instructors were quick to protest. Snapped Yale's veteran Robert Grasson: "Very foolish." Echoed Harvard's Rene Peroy: "Foolish and unsafe." More impassive was George Santelli, saber coach of the 1936 U. S. Olympic team. Shrugged he: "To approve . . . would be to approve the possibility that someone might be killed, so I do not approve...