Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think that you fellows are awfully foolish in the way you dress. White shoes, and crazy hats, and all kinds of old clothes. Now at Dartmouth, they have sensible clothes. And another thing. I don't see why you don't have a winter carnival like they do in New Hampshire. Where would they get the snow? Why don't be silly. Where do those clever people at Dartmouth get it? From the sky, of course. I read in the CRIMSON about how those haberdashers on the Square said that you boys were not the collegiate style leaders because...
...only difference between a man and a turtle," said President Lowell, in his address to the Freshman Class in New Lecture Hall yesterday morning, "is that a man is capable of educating himself. It is just as foolish to go up to a teacher and say to him, 'You are the educator and I am the educatee; try to educate me!'" This was one of President Lowell's last addresses to undergraduates during his term as President of the University...
...exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce: the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. A host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment...
...Canada's sect of Doukhobors call themselves, breathed easier last month when their leader, Peter Verigin II, was saved from deportation to Russia (TIME, Feb. 13). Locked up at immigration headquarters in Halifax, Leader Verigin admonished his followers to keep calm. "Do not follow the example of the foolish Sons of Freedom [fanatical inner Doukhobor sect], provocators who have been banished from the land [for going naked] and with whom we have nothing to do whatever. . . . Pay punctually all your taxes and obligations and conduct yourselves in an honorable and businesslike manner...
...gone to extreme lengths, laying a strict ban on inter-House transfers. The result has been a hardship imposed upon a considerable number of men. If a resident has good reasons for wanting to move to another House, and if no one is inconvenienced by the transfer, it is foolish to allow vague conceptions of House spirit to stand in the way. In a year of depression it argues a certain stubbornness for Masters to refuse permission for inter-House transfers to men who can secure cheaper rooms or more satisfactory room-mates by making the change...