Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Blackbird, through the mouth of Mr. Leuers and the Dog through that of Mr. Trader, actually gave character and tang to their speeches. Sometimes there was wit but very seldom poetry in what they said. Rostand and his changing speeches, his teeming wit, his birds as wise or as foolish, as generous or as selfish as humans, were far away--fully the three thousand miles that separate Boston from Paris. Of course, there was Miss Adams instead. What more was there to ask? Fertunate Rostand, fortunate "Chantecler" to serve her pretty, passing whim
...night, it is hardly more than sane precaution to do away with all needless hindrances to the quickest and safest possible escapes in a time of urgency. It may happen that the economy involved in the practice of unlighted hall-ways at night will prove penny wise but pound foolish...
...year 1909-10 were $127,945, or about $425 a day for ten months of the year. The charge of extravagance naturally follows such an exhibit of figures. Doubtless there is a considerable amount of money spent unnecessarily each year. A steady effort is being made, however, to curtail foolish expenditures and to spend the income of the association where it will accomplish most for the good of the University. A complete analysis of all the expenses during the past few years would demand more space than is available. A few facts about the finances of the association are herewith...
...nation is willing to pass a high-sounding resolution in favor of peace, and in any peace convention which is to do efficient work the difficult is not in passing such a resolution, but in preventing the passage of so many such resolutions as to make the convention appear foolish in the eyes of practical men. But the minute the question arises of actually applying the principle so easily enunciated in the abstract the difficulties in the way are seen to be of the most formidable character...
...Peace must come, if it is to be of the slightest good, as the child of justice, and not of weakness,--a fact that should be remembered by the foolish and short-sighted people who objected, for instance, to the fortifying of the Panama Canal and to the building up of the United States Navy. The efficiency of the United States Navy and its ability in very fact to guarantee by itself the neutrality of the Panama Canal will add immensely to our practical efficiency as a people in working for peace; and the surest way to destroy all power...