Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wisest to top the selection with a hearty passage from Professor Boring's own history of psychology; in this were thirty-seven indexed subjects under the head Vision, but never a glimpse of Night Vision. So the Vagabond gave up, feeling a bit wilted and dilettante, perhaps a little foolish; psychology, he decided, conceals pitfalls for the best-intentioned investigator...
...Department and at the Treasury, where he met his opposite number, young Undersecretary Dean Acheson. Each side made friendly little announcements. From a Treasury spokesman: "There is no use disguising the fact that the British cannot pay the entire sum due. To proceed on any other basis would be foolish." From Sir Ronald Lindsay: "Cancellation might come into the discussion, but it will go out again just as quickly, if I understand the feeling...
...Private Life of Henry VIII (London Film Productions, Ltd.). When he has Anne Boleyn executed, robustious Henry VIII is in high spirits. He has a drum give the signal the instant her head rolls off the block so that he need waste no time about marrying foolish, pretty Jane Seymour...
...brightest predictions for the future. It shows the striking power of imagination absent from such night-mares as "The Bulpington of Blup," and the ideas presented in it are worthy of more than dinner-table consideration. It is absurd to take some portions of it seriously as it is foolish to take others lightly. To appraise it absolutely is impossible till the future reveals its secrets; it is an interesting book, worthy of the spare moments of any intelligent person...
...moment came when presiding Judge Wilhelm Bünger introduced the written confession of Defendant van der Lubbe made just after the Reichstag fire, led him to acknowledge it in open court. Point by point the bullet-headed Judge went over every detail of the fire. No longer laughing foolishly, Defendant van der Lubbe sat listlessly, head bowed, occasionally broke into foolish giggles. When prodded, he agreed. The story...