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Word: foolishment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Snowden may have been foolish, but he was silent. Mrs. Snowden certainly is not foolish, and she is far from silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Mrs. Snowden Speaks | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

...ballad is being written of cold, of hunger, of a great lust for gold. The scene is New Mexico; the characters are the same daring, credulous, foolish, get rich-quickers who have strewed tin cans, romance, and their own bones on every trail from civilization to gold field since the days of '49. Gold Dust is the new town and the howling desert is its back yard. All the old setting is there: wild rumors, pokes filled with precious dust, a mad scramble for claims, tents, grimy men, and tired women. The automobile is the one touch of the twentieth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAGE ROBERT SERVICE | 1/21/1925 | See Source »

...poems a certain Childe Roland who came to a dark tower; but no Childe Harold ever went near a dark tower, to my knowledge. There was a Childe Harold, mentioned by Lord Byron, who . . . wends through many a pleasant place, Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 1, 1924 | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

This improved line showing cannot be underestimated. It means that Yale will have to fight for every yard Saturday. Those gloom dispensers who are figuring the Eli score against Harvard by adding 34 to 10 are reckoning without the Crimson forwards. Yale will be the favorite. It would be foolish to hint otherwise. The prospect of a run-away score for the Blue is, however, remote, with the Crimson line functioning as it did yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON GOES DOWN TO BROWN INVADERS | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

Three other pictures have been secured: An "Aesop Fable" in animated cartoons; another action picture of "Broncho Busting"; and a Ben Turpin comedy "Three Foolish Wives", a burlesque of Elinor Glyn's "Three Weeks". No pictures will be shown until about 8 o'clock, but the returns will start coming in over the special wire at 6 o'clock and will be continued as late as the audience desires. The Crimson Ramblers Orchestra will play during the program, which will be open only to Union members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION PLANS FOR ELECTION NIGHT | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

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