Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they do to alleged snobbery and social intrigue, still, curiosity is at least the second strongest of passions and a body of fairly reliable fact has become public property-through indiscreet wives, brazen peepers and sheer accident-with the currency of which the inscrutable ones would not be so foolish as to quarrel. Thus, it is known that one "tomb" is furnished in the acme of masculine comfort, all its furniture being heavily upholstered in black leather; that over a bathtub hangs a portrait in oils of Napoleon; that each "tomb" has its windowless "shrine" or ceremonial chamber where...
...called-that organ, which is so frequently maligned, did not interest me." In this book Author Wilde also describes his entrance to London, "this huge heap of Philistinism," as a young man: "I felt like a goldfish who was choked from devouring too much bread. ... It seemed a foolish thing to go on living in such a world...
Allow me to add my voice to the doubtless already large group of protestors against the treatment accorded to graduates who were so foolish as to give their time to a visit back to the University on May 1. Although I live in the Middle West, I happened, fortunately, to be in New York and so count it only as a day wasted, but it was annoying and a disgrace to Harvard...
Pomeroy's Past. Clare Kummer can balance the feather of wit on the foolish nose of her comedies just about as well as anybody in America. This latest of her all too infrequent writings is powdered with agreeable derision and encumbered with an incredibly heavy last act. If you examine it meticulously you will probably find that the other acts are not too effective. For the sake of the numerous excruciating lines you will waive this examination. Pomeroy's Past is an entertainment of major delight in the conversation. Otherwise it does not matter much...
...barber who always needs a haircut and the tailor whose clothes never fit him, then it is the economics professor who makes unwise investments-at least he seldom causes a sensation by making brilliant ones. But the foolish economists of Columbia University will be benefited by a scheme projected there last week, a scheme that is probably unique among college faculties. Shrewd astronomers, canny classics scholars, practical esthetics lecturers- in fact, all Columbia's staff-were invited to pool their investments in a faculty fund to be handled by three trustees. The benefits promised: services of competent counsel, diversification...