Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people have been told during the past 60 days, first, that they need not fear a suspension, and then that there was ample coal on hand. Foolish public men have created for the American people a fool's paradise, and they are due for a fool's awakening. If the mines were to start tomorrow it is extremely unlikely, from present prospects, that production and distribution would catch up with fuel requirements before the coming of next spring...
Here lies Ooo-Rah, misbegotten child of Wild and Foolish Frenzy, conceived in playfulness, nourished in jest, and brought forth still-born before an expectant world. Bred to thunder forth the fame of wounded heroes stricken on the field of glory, poor Ooo-Rah never wheezed a note. No single "Ooo" nor yet a "Rah" did Ooo-Rah bellow out in signal of a lusty birth. One long protracted hush proclaimed before an anxious multitude that Ooo-Rah's birth was also Ooo-Rah's death. So let him lie and rest in everlasting peace. And may this simple tribute...
...from the small-time moving picture palace and the two-a-day vaudeville house, to something that almost approaches cinematic opera. One wonders naturally if there are movies worthy of such an elaborate presentation. On first glance the Metropolitan seems to be taking the chance of looking a little foolish at times. But in the long run it is this very magnificence of setting which will insure its own success, and the success of moving pictures in general. Production can scarcely fail to feel the urge of such a stimulus...
This proposal has not taken the House or the Senate by storm. Instead, the representatives of the people, usually so eager to ally themselves with progress, have maintained strict silence. A few solons, it is true, have booed the idea as foolish. It seems that there is a suspicion current among the majority of these men that light-headedness scientifically obtained and tabublated, would be interested too literally in non-scientific circles, and out of sheer group loyalty they feel they must ignore the issue...
...Foolish the farmer who, having dug into his pocket to buy a horse, leaves the beast munching in his stable and trudges to town afoot...