Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Donahey answered. Said he: "That's a foolish question. . . . You will act the gentleman in here or I will exercise the prerogative I have, and take you by the seat of the trousers and throw you out of my office...
...march of progress-who in America dares stand in its way? What city in the U. S. dares turn savagely upon its boosters crying to them: "O foolish Philistines!" There is such a city, an ancient city founded when the Indians still hunted over Murray Hill, and Boston Common was indistinguishable from the wilderness around. The breath of the golden century of Spain clings to Santa Fe's narrow streets, walled gardens, soft cathedral chimes. Soft Santa Fe has not, as they would say in Miami or Los Angeles, "kept pace with the march of progress." It is still...
...which Christine's hubby says he likes her best." Another offering the Mirror made last week was a discussion of what constitutes true beauty in the female form. The idea the editors tried to get across was that "flat flappers" are not desirable, that dieting is therefore foolish. Voluptuous, well-fleshed women are preferable, the article tried to say. More or less appropriately, poses by Marjorie Rambeau, Lenore Ulric, Gertrude Ederle, Ethel Barrymore, Helen Wills were printed to illustrate the point. The interesting thing was a detail which used to be unusual for a Hearst paper. However vulgar...
...wilderness by a forest fire and Joe Easter, the fire hanging back just far enough to make an impressive setting for some sterling heroics by Joe when he catches up. Joe has been cleaned out by tricky Indians and now offers 1) to save his good friend Prescott from foolish Alverna; 2) to commit suicide. After a protracted love-feast, the two men ship Alverna back to Minneapolis, and splendid Joe then pretends to get drunk so that Prescott will see what a mistake it would be to take him to New York and introduce him to cultured friends...
That imperturbable quality grows in him. Editors, recognizing his ability, are irritated by his indolence, then struck foolish and speechless by the impersonal tolerance and good Humor with which he takes his leave. Openings are plentiful, for he can pump a column into a gorgeous political balloon and, modeling his style after Edgar Poe's, turn off fiction serials that harrow most satisfactorily. By sheer imperturbability he proceeds on up to the Brooklyn Eagle's staff, departing, when his Abolition feelings get too vigorous for his employers, to take charge of Publisher McClure's new Crescent in New Orleans...