Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germans in the street took the attitude that the invasion would be an unhappy necessity. They protested that the gallant British were foolish not to seek a fair peace now; that the Germans hated to have to subdue the islands. Germans who claimed to have inside information passed word to foreign correspondents that the attempt would come early in March -a good reason for doubting that it would come just then. But it was taken for granted in Berlin that to win the war, the invasion must be attempted - and must succeed - by June. As to technique, one well-pleased...
...middle of her fourth decade in the theatre, Gertrude Lawrence still speaks of "just beginning to make a go of it." The remark does much to explain her determined, year-by-year climb to preeminence in one branch of the entertainment business after another. It is really quite foolish to speak of her as "a substitute" for the Life Force. Of that Force, she has at least eight or ten women's share...
...just the same his solid, simple phrase had brought assurance of a kind; it was an old-fashioned Yankee yardstick. Franklin Roosevelt might be morally right in saying that the silly, foolish dollar sign must be taken off aid-to-Britain, but Jesse Jones touched an old American feeling that there is righteousness in sound business...
...until last month did he make his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, singing a minor comic role in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. Fortnight ago he took the centre of the stage, in the title role of Donizetti's Don Pasquale: a waddling, foolish old party, so much put upon that when he got slapped by a soprano minx he touched real pathos. Last week Baccaloni waddled again, this time as walrus-mustached Sergeant Sulpice in Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment-and his reputation was made in Manhattan...
Fact was that the U. S., in trying to aid Britain, was still producing more bottle necks per week than anything else. But Mr. Roosevelt announced that he would take off that aid "the silly, foolish dollar sign." He had prepared the public for whatever concrete legislation may be proposed. He was still working day & night with the only immediately effective U. S. weapons: dollars and diplomacy. The nation would soon become a gigantic arsenal. Preparedness was to be all-out preparedness. The Budget soon to go to Congress might be an Anglo-American budget. Whether or not it would...