Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Fascist Italy was short of wheat, Futurist Marinetti cried out against spaghetti, warning that it was farinaceous, fattening and foolish-making, that in the next war "the most nimble people will win." In a campaign against conservative, bourgeois dress, he manifestoed in favor of aluminum neckties. In support of Fascist flag-waving, he manifestoed in favor of a national cocktail composed of red, white and green liquors. And when Italy went on the warpath for an Ethiopian Empire, he signed up and went to East Africa, busy with "ideas for Army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum...
There is a fascination about bombing raids. Some foolish atavistic fancy for birds of prey makes men stay out and watch successive waves of planes fly over, voiding their terrible little pellets. Even cowards do it. The most pathetic human race, the Chinese, do it. Last week they did it in Chungking, and died like flies...
...after day the planes came. Politely a Japanese naval spokesman in Hankow said that raids would continue daily until Chungking's "spirit of resistance is broken." Each day the foolish, childish Chinese looked into the sky and wondered whether the planes would come. When they did, the stolid, fascinated faces of those about to die watched them, with a hate which would not be broken even if the Japanese bombed until the whole 750-foot rock of Chungking was blasted to sea level...
These two Houses have monopolized athletic honors. At least four times in the past six years of competition, they have together held first and second place. And the reason? Simply spirit. "It's a brave man indeed--or a foolish one--who mentions 'spirit' here at Harvard," reads the opening paragraph of the first Kirkland House Year Book, "but when it's a question of Kirkland House, spirit with all its ghastly implications must be mentioned too. For spirit is what individualizes Kirkland...
People claim that no good swing exists in Boston. We deny this, while pointing to Jack Hill's outfit, playing at the Little Dixie over on Mass. Avenue. Despite the foolish economy of cutting the band to six pieces removing Eddie Hawley's fine bass and Bob Chestnut's trumpet work, the band still swings. High Diggs (piano) and Dave Chestnut (drums) "kick" right along while Bill Stanley's trumpet and Daniel Potter's excellent sax work are worth catching...