Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference, he had denied that he would ask for State NRA to supplement his new NRA act (see p.11). The news was flashed to Indiana. The Governor, Democrat Paul V. McNutt, who is making a great to-do for passage of a State NRA law, was made to look foolish. The President was annoyed...
...girl in a Coffee Pot figuring up her budget; a smalltime crook getting the double-cross from his cronies. Almost without exception his characters are knaves, fools, or a mixture of both. But Author O'Hara edits his copy so cannily that his reports of their knavish or foolish goings-on are arresting...
...married the only woman who had ever been a census supervisor in Maine. Arriving in Washington a week later he happily informed interviewers that he had no intention of abiding by the House tradition of silence for first-termers. Twanged he: "I'm almost always foolish enough to speechify...
...enthusiasm extended even to his murderous crack-brained hero who appeared on La Scala stage as a dreamer who fiddled while Rome was burning because he was sincerely absorbed in his music. La Scala had staged a lavish production but, even to many who cheered, it all seemed rather foolish. First act was in a murky tavern where Nero, in disguise, fights a gladiator and ensnares a trembling slave girl who sings duets with him after she has become accustomed to the splendors of Palatine Hill. When the people revolt Nero is still in a dream, staging wild bacchanalia...
...according to a correspondent of London's Sunday Express, "A certain number of Communists will be sent to camps, unless they are converted into honest people. The 40,000 Saar unemployed will be mustered into the German Labor Front and set to building public works. A few foolish clergymen will be removed-by their Bishops, not by us! All members of the United Front will be isolated. We have promised not to do them any harm, but we have not promised to do them any good...