Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, as the tall, stern Senator relaxed, Chang added contemptuously: "Me have always been puzzled why Western men are so foolish about their women...
...Cachin. These gentlemen were told that they must at once set a time convenient to themselves to serve jail sentences which have hung over each for almost two years. Since their was crimes were extended by political, French this custom ? courtesy based on the theory that it is foolish to make martyrs out of men whose crime is too much talk against the Government. Jailed they would talk louder, martyred they might be heeded...
Judge Elbert Henry Gary, 81, at the American Iron & Steel Institute meeting in Manhattan, related: "A few weeks ago practicing a very foolish thing that I have been accustomed to, I put my feet up on my desk-at a directors' meeting too, while I was thinking-my chair tipped over too far and, of course, I struck the arm of the chair in the very worst place-in the small of the back. Since that time I have not been quite up to par and my nerves were to some extent shocked I think. This morning...
...violence-he slaughtered Malays, bashed Turks-is substituted, or at least talked a great deal about, a love of Romance-and of "good copy." Both have written with an (extravagance surpassing mere boastfulness and Playboy Halliburton, though constantly referring to himself as "such a nut" and "incorrigible" and "foolish," has the editorial wit to push a lot of his playfulness off on various traveling companions. Also, knowing his public, Author Halliburton carefully explains that whenever the companion happened to be a female they stayed at separate hotels...
Meanwhile other newspapers gave their cartoonists April foolish license. Bald, smooth-shaven Foreign Minister Stresemann was depicted - for example - as a woolly Bolshevik. Only one great man was held sacrosant, Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. He was not caricatured because to Germans he is Germany...