Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...critics of Chicago to hail every week as a great artist some singer hitherto ungraced by U.S. laurels. Two weeks ago it was Baritone Bonelli. Last week it was Luella Melms, coloratura singer, born in Appleton, Wis. She made her debut in Rigoletto. Staid people have been foolish enough to believe that a mod ern audience could not be more than politely moved by the graceful insipidities of the old score-that the days were past when a perfect trill was a signal for young men in evening clothes to unhitch the horses of a prima donna's carriage...
...while the past season has exalted college football to new glories, it, has also done something in the opposite direction. From the very magnitude of the evil has sprung a reaction. Numerous indications show that in many colleges many students--both players and non-players--are renouncing the foolish idolatry of the game, and no longer worship in abject humility before the jealous gods of football. This reaction is especially strong at Harvard...
...hear "Hard luck for poor old Eli", sung at the Princeton game sounds foolish, to say the least. L. H. Cushman...
...proposal that the United States participate immediately and without conditions in the work of the World Court, thus becoming a member state, are accused of being isolationists, of working against world peace, and of being unwilling to substitute law for war. Nothing could be more unfounded and foolish than this accusation. It betrays a tragic lack of objectivity on the part of most of the propagandists for the World Court. They are under the spell of a great idea; to them the World Court issue has become the symbol and test of America's willingness to cooperate with other nations...
...When it comes (any time now, within two or three years) do not rush out in the street, "the most foolish procedure possible" because of falling walls and debris...