Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other women envious. New purpose, for the first time since World War I (they said): to allure males. The hats were cheap. Over 70% of this year's hats sell for $5 or under; more than 60% cost $2.95 or less. To U.S. women, hats were a penny-foolish expense that made the pound-wise cost of war more bearable...
...China; the southwest Pacific would fall to the Japanese, who would then be able to launch large-scale attacks on the U.S. and Alaska; that Turkey, the Suez Canal, North and West Africa would fall to the Nazis; that the British and Russian efforts would be crippled. Such "foolish advice," he said, would result in a "turtle policy": "We prefer to retain the eagle as it is-flying high and striking hard...
Scornfully, he rejected suggestions that this country pull back its warships, planes and merchantships into home waters and concentrate solely on a last-ditch of the United States. He said this is "foolish" and a "fatuous policy...
Coles Phinizy '42, ex-president of the Lampoon went further than Keith, saying: "I think it's foolish to go through with any Class Day this year. I don't see any reason...
...prize-for dogs "combining the most breeds." She buys 25 Ib. of bird seed a week, which she spreads on her window sills-to the delight of birds and the chagrin of her fellow tenants; the bird-droppings make quite a mess. Says Mme. Hempel: "I am quite, quite foolish about animals...