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Word: foolishment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times when clothes are about the best investment that a woman can make. If, instead of bleakly saving for her old age, a working girl puts her surplus into attractive gowns, she stands a chance of making a marriage that will change her whole life. A girl is foolish to be too thrifty with her clothes budget, especially during her prettiest years. . . . Every girl I know who made a good marriage this year was the type who spends thought, cash and attention on clothes. The investments they made on gowns brought them more in money and material comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...what started the World War, haven't you? Here is what the Kaisor says about it: 'One day Theodore Roosevelt called on me, and after we bad joked for a while, he jovially slapped me on the back and said that I could lick the world; and I was foolish enough to try.' Who knows what the next war will be about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TANKS AND CHEMICALS WILL DECIDE NEXT WAR | 4/2/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard Union last night, stated in an interview yesterday afternoon. "Actually, there can be little distinction. We are of the same blood and speak and think alike. To expect that the mere signing of the Declaration of Independence would change the whole spirit of a nation is foolish. The literature of the two nations is one. Sherwood Anderson, for instance, I consider just as much an English novelist as I do myself an American. I have just as many readers on this side of the Atlantic as abroad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICANS DO NOT HAVE MONOPOLY OF BABBITTS | 4/1/1927 | See Source »

...saved the lives of several Frenchmen at that time. ... I have no sentiment about that. . . . It seemed to me very foolish to kill, torture or castrate all the French captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Caid El-Hadj | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...Cathay-where, in translation and paraphrase, he brought to life moments and persons of high passion and beauty, each age with its own sharp flavor. Poetry being essentially a personal thing, none may credit nor gainsay Novelist Ford's estimate of Poet Pound. As criticism it is a foolish phrase. But it is certain that Ezra Pound is ... a poet that doth drink life As lesser men drink wine. He has been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time. For the marriage at Cana in Galilee he has written a dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VERSE: Jongleur | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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