Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, a similar project is unnecessary. The results of a Yale inquiry would unquestionably be in such close harmony with those at Princeton that we should be foolish to fail to profit by her fingers. The Yale atmosphere in American business is very impressive. It should breed confidence here that the success of Yale alumni is at least as high as any in the nation...
Chilean reporters who had told their newspapers that H. R. H. went home and to bed "at about 4 a. m. without playing baccarat." felt foolish when the facts came out. Seasoned baccarat players harked back to 1890 when almost the whole English press raged at the then Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) for baccaratting, when German papers headlined sarcastically "Ich Deal," when the Archbishop of Canterbury had to step in for the honor of the Throne...
Heat Wave is another play about the tropics where white women are careless of their virtue, white men foolish with their drink and only the natives retain a stealthy dignity. Handsome Basil Rathbone (The Command to Love) is the dissolute Nordic who is pursued by Irene March (Betty Lawford) but who really loves Irene's married sister-in-law Philippa (Selena Royle). For all his tippling and reputed wenching the Nordic is a brave lonely man, fighting fever and the opposition of public opinion in the district. This general resentment culminates in Philippa's husband taking a shot...
Shamed and distressed, foolish Mrs. Blacklidge turned in her Federal resignation. Said she: "I made a grave mistake and I am paying for it. I am resigning my office to save the Government and my friends from further embarrassment...
...almost ludicrously humiliating position" if the Gandhites continued to demonstrate for independence and had to be locked up again. In Calcutta, simultaneously, Nationalist S. Chandra Bose was let out of jail. He promptly resumed his Nationalist oratory, was locked up again by policemen who doubtless felt foolish. In London, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald all but sobbed with emotion in a typical appeal to the House of Commons as debate on the Round Table Conference work began: "If you are prepared to march our soldiers from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, if you are prepared to stage-for the world...