Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shown at the Harvard Union on the night of November 4, it was announced by-the Union. The pictures will consist of "Gridiron Glory", a football picture in fast and slow motion; "Taking a Chance", hazardous moments from all forms of sport both in fast and slow motion; "Three Foolish Weeks", a burlesque on Eleanor Glynn's famous story, with Ben Turpin as the fair-haired hero; and an "Aesop Fable", an animated cartoon by Paul Terry...
Alexander Woollcott?"The twinkling lady, Margaret Lawrence, is most of the refreshment offered in the rather foolish, but amusing,comedy...
...difficult to analyse Freud's doctrine of psychoanalysis. Is it a science or a philosophy? As there can be no science with a philosophy, it is both. Freud says that injuries are caused to the body by the mind (neurosis) ; not the conscious mind, for no one is so foolish, but by the unconscious mind. The psychoanalyst's job is, therefore, to bring into the conscious mind those factors which are disturbing the unconscious mind and so cause them to disappear...
...Princeton beats Notre Dame, Coaches Fisher and Jones will be given a severe jolt. The Tigers are not rated as strong enough to stop the veteran Notre Dame backfield. Layden and his mates made Princeton look foolish last year and they are better than ever this season...
...mazda throws its beams." Since the coming generation will never have seen a candle except as a painful substitute for electricity, ancient authors will have to be brought up to date, or the favorite similies of candles and oil will not be understood. Such parables as that of the foolish virgins, who used up too soon all the oil for their lamps will lose all their significance. "But Mother," the modern precocity will say, "why didn't they get new batteries for their flashlights at the drug store...