Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confession of his sadism. Police in many States followed clues to other crimes, other murders, all linked to Clarks burg's "Bluebeard" and the matrimonial societies through which he operated. From his papers it was apparent he had conducted at least 115 mail-order "court ships" with lonely, foolish women. Relatives of Widow Asta Buick Eicher, 50, in Park Ridge, Ill., became suspicious when Harry F. Powers, with whom she and her three children had left home after a mail-order courtship, reappeared to claim her house. Letters from Powers postmarked Clarksburg, W. Va., were found in the house...
...never be obtained until the 18th Amendment is repealed; they do not advocate the return of liquor or drinking; one has never left the country, the other has never ceased. The 32,000 speakeasies in New York make record breaking flights to Cuba to get a drink a foolish pursuit. Even here in the Nation's Capital and right in the shadow of the White House, the Department of Justice, the Prohibition Bureau, and the Methodist Board of Prohibition, Temperance and Public Morals, thousands-yes, thousands-of speakeasies have been raided...
...epigram. Her first venture in Hollywood was an undistinguished effort for Pathe called The Awful Truth. Her next was a marriage with John Gilbert which resulted in such frantic publicity for the last celebrated lover of the silent cinema that it made Actress Claire look a little foolish. Her contract with Pathé abruptly terminated. Actress Claire was signed by Paramount and given an opportunity to star in one of the best pictures of 1930, The Royal Family. Last winter she accepted a five-year contract with Samuel Goldwyn who rented her back to RKO-Pathe to translate Rebound into...
...late Great War "did bring about a perceptible the of the re establishments. Naturally enough, Catholic Church profited the most, for the stress of the war days, and even in the confusion that came after it seemed the one stable thing left the world." Author Browne concludes: "the foolish of the world" now have
...giro against tumbling plummet-like from the sky are not supposed to be proof against every fault of piloting. Builders of the ship may well have wondered in idle moments, How serious will be the first accident to ''crash'' U. S. headlines? Who will be the pilot? A foolish stunt flyer descending into a busy street? A drunken playboy flying into the side of a skyscraper? A witless novice slamming the controls this way and that? Last week the builders knew the answers. The accident, at Abilene, Tex., was not serious. But, unfortunately for the 'giro, its story was carried...