Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musical comedy. Like an abdicating heavyweight champion in their homely adoration, George White and others have decided to honor Shakespeare in the only way they know, with naked nymphs and syncopated madrigals. White's notion is a "modern musical version of Romeo and Juliet" but last week, rendered foolish by the astonishing success of his Scandals, he forgot about Shakespeare and said that he was going into the talking movie business. He was tired of soothing temperamental stars...
...Newark, Dr. Abraham Friedland, a foolish dentist, sat in his garage until he was overcome by carbon monoxide gas. Attracted by the cries of his secretary, policemen, passing in a car, drove in but they were too ignorant to be of any help. With them in their car the policemen had two captured thieves who, straining in their handcuffs to do a good deed, pumped and wiggled the doctor until he began to breathe again...
...Some foolish editor in search of a feature suggested me as Vice President and sent a young woman to ask me about it. I scouted the whole idea as ridiculous and said I objected to belittling women in politics by such proposals. Asked if I did not think I was fitted to be Vice President, I said, 'No,' and that nothing is worse than for a person to be in a position for which he is not fit. Asked if I did not think I was as fit as Senator Curtis, I said I did not think...
...record: 1) whether Mr. Hoover has taken a drink since Prohibition; 2) whether Mr. Hoover would take a drink now if assured the liquor was legally possessed. Nominee Hoover's secretary, chubby George Akerson, refused to transmit the questions to his chief. Vexed, he cried: "A lot of foolish nonsense! Mr. Hoover is a Constitutional executive officer and as such he hasn't taken anything to drink since he's been in office. ... I don't think Mr. Hoover ever was with Clarence Darrow...
...stories told last week in Omaha by one Mat Greevy and the Omaha World-Herald. Newsgatherers considered the stories so improbable that they did not bother to seek denial or confirmation from busy Nominee Hoover, whose door is guarded by a chubby secretary and the expletive: "A lot of foolish nonsense!" (see LETTERS...