Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Raymond Hitchcock, after a period of metropolitan inactivity, is in eruption with the Ritz Revue. Associated with him is the elongated Charlotte Greenwood, than whom there is no more foolish female unless it be Fanny Brice, who is among the natural phenomena of the forthcoming Music Box Revue. In the same Box are Robert Benchley and the ridiculous Clark and McCullough. In Dutch is the Gallagher and Shean trademark. Leon Errol will fall on his face as Louis in Louis, the Fourteenth...
...budget for the first time since the War is one and indivisible. This means that the French have abandoned the foolish practice of having two budgets, one ordinaire, and one recouvrable. (To the latter was charged the expense of reconstructing the war-devastated areas, the amount being a charge against reparation payments from Germany, which were generally unpaid.) This year the Government has to face a budget deficit of about 2 billion paper francs ($100 million). On top of that, it has constantly to worry with maturing short-term commitments. The panacea suggested is to convert into long-term securities...
...Parliament of Erl was to some extent imaginative. In their ruddy jackets of leather, the twelve members appeared before their stately lord where he sat in a carven chair in his long red room. They desired to be ruled by a magic lord. And though he feared them foolish, he agreed, and sent forth Alvaric, who was his son, to find and wed the King of Elfland's Daughter...
...critics were seen busy analysing the play of Helen Wills and comparing her to the Frenchwoman, Suzanne Lenglen. The general opinion was that Helen was not as fast as Suzanne but that she was a harder hitter. The American girl was also thought foolish to play in such an important tournament before familiarizing herself with the slower British balls and other strange conditions by playing in several minor tournaments...
...cannot be said this year that we can fell the Elis "by the foolish way they row (splash! splash!)" but neither can it be said of the Crimson...