Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cars pay a terrific license tax ($225 yearly for a Rolls-Royce, $120 for a U.S. Ford, $50 for the special "British Ford" with smaller motor [10 h. p.], $35 for an Austin). So far so good, but Mr. Ford plainly told the English motor tycoons that it is foolish (for them to try and sell "baby cars" in the British Dominions, where roads are rough, hills steep, and greater horse power popular.† "Some English cars," wrote Mr. Ford, "have not been suitable to pioneering conditions in your Dominions, and your manufacturers have 'not attempted to make...
...Gandhi himself was married at twelve to a girl of twelve. Said he last week: "Oh foolish ones! Without understanding this law you are busy marrying off little children. Shame, shame! You are so ignorant, and ignorance is the cause of your slavery to Great Britain." But though his own child-marriage was bitterly unhappy, he did not specifically condemn the custom, merely called it "ignorant...
Slightly Scarlet (Paramount). More than slightly foolish, this decorative melodrama of jewel thieves at work and play on the Riviera belongs to a comparatively new but increasingly comprehensive category of sound-cinemas. Its story is insipid and a lot of its talk ridiculous, but it it so well-made, its sets are so pretty, and its people so competent that within the scope of its intention it is hard to find fault with it. Even in its worst passages it provokes only that mild comfortable sort of boredom which is sometimes pleasanter than entertainment to people who want something...
...statesmen could express and which he best expressed in a speech last year at Princeton : "There is nothing, apart from the ever-important cultivation of the spiritual values, which your country and my country needs so much as the cultivation of esthetic values; not in the foolish and pretentious fashion of the esthetes of the Victorian era but in the straightforward manly fashion of many of the great artists of the Renaissance period. . . . Unfortunately I have never learned any handicraft but I hope to make good this defect when I retire to become an enthusiastic if perhaps a belated bookbinder...
...playwright whom he encountered on the way. In dramatizing the story, Arthur Goodrich has entirely neglected this central theme, has treated all the characters broadly and achieved a completely banal degree of farce. The performance by Charles Douville Coburn, Ivah Wills Coburn and their supporting cast is, at best, foolish...