Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literature on Governor Smith. I want the non-political kind.' And he brought her downstairs, put her in an automobile and took her over to an office where a paper is published called The Fellowship Forum which, for a number of years, has been engaged in this senseless, foolish, stupid attack upon the Catholic Church...
...Washington, National Superintendent McBride was informed of the Ohio editorial by a Manhattan colleague who called it "flat dumbness," "not so particularly vicious as it is extremely foolish." Announced Leaguer McBride: "The Anti-Saloon League of America stands ready to support a Dry Catholic for the Presidency against a Wet Protestant...
...goddess is exalted with the maddest and most foolish hymns to become a symbol of national power. . . . Meanwhile, true virtues . . . are forgotten...
Apparently no one attempted a scientific and personal controversion of Fletcherism during the period of its maximum popularity. In fact it was not proved foolish until last week when one Dr. Harold G. O. Hoick, an instructor in physiology at the University of Chicago, announced the results of a four-and-a-half-year test which he had made upon himself. For two and a half years he ate like a pig, whenever he wanted and without undue mastication. Then for a year and a half he became a Fletcherite mincing his mouthfuls with bovine perseverance but not enthusiasm. After...
Unlike these two Englishmen is Zuloaga, called the modern El Greco, the modern Goya, and other foolish titles. A bald and portly Latin with a bushy moustache which grows lighter in color and smaller with the years, Zuloaga is spectacularly and entirely Spanish. His work, though loud, is sound. Like many fashionable artists, he has ingratiating traits of personality which cause his patrons to regard him as a gentle and delectable monster. When he exhibited in the U. S. four years ago, he sold $100,000 of paintings on the first day of the show and Governor Fuller outdid himself...