Word: foolish
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...about well-born wastrels, among them Bertie Wooster, Wodehouse introduced a valet named Jeeves. He paired the two to solve plot problems in The Man With Two Left Feet (1917), and the rest is history. To the many theories about the characters' origins, McCrum insightfully adds: "The cunning servant?foolish master has been a staple of comedy since classical times, and Wodehouse certainly knew his Plautus and his Terence." By the 1920s, magazines like Liberty and The Saturday Evening Post would pay up to $35,000 to serialize a Wodehouse novel. At the dawn of the Depression...
...mass exodus, like those that helped topple communist regimes in Eastern Europe in 1989. "The U.S. seems to calculate that it can use the issue of defectors for bringing down [North Korea]," said an unnamed Foreign Ministry official earlier this month on a Pyongyang-sanctioned website. "This is ... as foolish an act as trying...
...Kashmir and ending three Himalayan passes later on the edge of the Tibetan plateau at Leh in Ladakh. Halfway along, it brushes the disputed border between India and Pakistan, where a small but savage war was fought in 1999, virtually closing the road to all but the very foolish or the very brave. Since last year's cease-fire, however, one of the great road journeys in the world is again attracting tourists...
...Tempting, but foolish. Marvel at the emptiness of the desert plain, but remember, Barbara Sturt and her people can find waterholes and billabongs here in a landscape that could kill the rest of us in hours. That kind of knowledge, you suspect, takes more than one lifetime to acquire...
...Moore once stated that Americans are “possibly the dumbest people on the planet.” It’s no wonder his books and movies have made such a killing in Europe. A new French comedy called L’Americain (The American) satirizes a foolish young Frenchman who is convinced he wants to be American. The movie’s advertisement features an awkward looking young man posing as the stereotypical “stupid American.” This attitude is duly reflected in Britian’s Jerry Springer: The Opera?...