Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companion picture, "The Hory Terror" is a foolish little comedy staring Jane Withers--that pudgy young she-devil. If it does nothing else, it explains Freddie Bartholomew's preference for Shirley Temple...
Polisuk: "You think I'm foolish, maybe...
...foolish enough to try to place myself in a class, for example, with Ravel and Sibelius, whom I admire tremendously," says Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe ("Ferde Grofe"), "but there is a real place for my kind of music. Some time, when I get older-I am 44 now-I may try a strict symphony form, but in the meantime I am going on trying to describe America in music." The America of Ferde Grofe (pronounced Ferdy GroFay), plump onetime arranger for Paul Whiteman and for the past five years a highly successful semi-classical musician on his own, is bounded...
Last week, not in his budget message but in a press conference held before he sent it to Congress, President Roosevelt intimated that he thought it would be foolish to build up such a huge reserve. For the time being he would be content to let the reserve pile up, but after it has got a start, adopt a "pay-as-you-go" policy, presumably reducing Social Security taxes so as to collect no more than was paid out in pensions...
...dominance, all with their noses close to the grindstone, all burdened with debts, worry, obligations to relatives, making unappreciated sacrifices and impossible plans. On the other side the Luth brothers are fanning a feeble flicker of business, trying to keep from taking losses, while their children make foolish marriages, family parasites drain away their incomes. A sentimental and static tale despite this promising dramatic setup, The Sound of Running Feet ends inconclusively with little more than the presentation of the dilemmas of the characters, although when Gregory's union plans fall through he decides to marry Mureth anyway. What...