Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...various State legislatures pass approximately 18,000 new laws, and Congress adds yearly to our already groaning statute books. The result it that most people do not know what the law is and do not care sufficiently to find out. They know that many of our laws are foolish and unenforceable and they do not hesitate to disregard them. They are' normally law-abiding, but the violations by our legislatures of the fundamental principles of law-making have been so flagrant that the great majority of the people have no qualms in differentiating between good laws and bad and recognizing...
...stability equal to any in Europe. Their economic program is being carried out with an idealism and sacrifice of which the American people have no true concept. There are 156,000,000 people in Russia and to ignore their desires, wants and governmental stability is to act the foolish ostrich with its head in the sand...
...prominent U. S. airmen only one publicly questioned the value of the Coste flight. Said Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks: "It was a great display of nerve but a foolish thing to do. . . . Though it was magnificently courageous, flights across the ocean in landships prove nothing except nerve and luck. When one is made in a seaplane, then something will have been accomplished...
...lyricists and songwriters of the show go most of the credit for its success. Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, who were responsible for many of the tunes in last year's production, have produced three memorable numbers: "Foolish Face," "Sing Something Simple," "Lucky Seven." Perhaps even more tintinnabulating are the melodies of Messrs. William M. Lewis Jr. and Ted Fetter: "My Heart Begins to Thump! Thump!" and "What A Case...
There are U. S. ophthalmologists sufficiently skilled to write such prescriptions. But none, so far as could be learned last week, owns a complete set of 39 test lenses (cost $25 a lens); and most consider contact glasses foolish, unnecessary. Dr. Heine's customers have been people with athletic or cosmetic reasons. Miss Robin's reason for wearing the lenses last week was to accommodate the New York optometrists. She was in constant fear that the glasses might break on her eyes...