Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rube went to New York, got a job illustrating sports for the Evening Mail. One day he filled out his space with Foolish Question No. 1, showing a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he were hurt. (Answer: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business...
...Foolish Questions started Goldberg toward a 1915 salary of $25,000 a year. The Hearst syndicate immediately offered him $50,000. The Mail beat this bid and during the next 15 years, from the Mail and from syndication, Goldberg earned more than...
...didn't during and after the last war. Foolish women paid $80 for $10.95 dresses; $18.50 for $4.50 shoes; $100 rent for $30 apartments; $3.95 for $1.25 hose; $2.95 for 50? cosmetics. The younger generation don't believe us when we tell them we realize we were fools to do it. They jingle big money in their pockets and coin purses, and look around for something expensive to buy, something they never felt they could afford before. We thought the big money came our way just because we were smart. So now the younger generation are so much...
...blue-eyed Norwegian tried to emulate his Nazi friend. First of the Quisling Cabinet to get a uniform, he copied his so closely from Goebbels' that in photographs it was hard to tell Lunde from Goebbels. Norwegians nicknamed Lunde "lille Goebbels," and knew him as a vain, ambitious, foolish man who had been an outstanding research chemist when he joined the Quisling Party...
Once there was a foolish Freshman who came to Harvard filled with rabid notions of Economy. Consequently he Rebuffed all invitations to Subscribe to the CRIMSON with Great Gusto, little realizing the Awful Fate which was in store...