Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agree to such a date would be undignified and foolish!" snapped Briand...
...Labor Government offers as the "extreme limit" to which it can grant Egyptian independence, hypothetically granted in 1922, Mme. Garzouzi's voice shivered and swelled. Said she: "Never trust an Englishman's promise or agreements where British interests are at stake. . . . Who, knowing them, would be so foolish as to take them seriously? Not we Egyptians surely. . . . The Labor Government-the MacDonald-Henderson-Snowden-Thomas lot-is the most hypocritical. . . . We were dragooned [by the Conservative Government in 1922] into signing an agreement which binds us to surrender our liberties for another 25 years. . . . They promised to take...
...editor. His nostrum proves rather unpalatable, for the lover she chooses is too torrid for a woman acclimated to a temperate zone. Then too, her husband is rather unpleasant about the liaison, so she finally dashes off to Austria with the doctor. Walter Connolly is excellent as the smug, foolish husband, but Henry Hull's persistently fortissimo rendition of the other man frays the nerves and should detract from his reputation...
...Foolish Lover--Handel...
...Switzerland, a year ago last August, Cesare Rossi was so foolish as to go for a motor ride with an elegant brunette. Their car entered the Italian town of Campione, a town bordered on three sides by Switzerland. Instantly Cesare Rossi was arrested and clapped into jail, charged with high treason...