Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost seems foolish to outline the plot of such a well-known play, but some people forget easily, and some may have been touring Europe when this "Cohan show" came to Boston. The story centers about John Paul Bart, who is in the employ of Anton Huber, a tailor. Like all human beings and Horatio Alger heroes, he cherishes fond hopes of becoming a great man, and to further himself intellectually commits to memory many phrases of an unpublished work by Dr. Gustavus Sonntag, the finance of Mr. Huber's daughter, Tanya. Finally opportunity knocks at his door...
...sent a statement to the press which was widely published, although the Wall Street Journal refused to in-clude it in its columns. Mr. Livermore declared that the oil scandal had undermined confidence in the stock market, and rendered doubtful the presidential nominations. "I think it is very foolish trying to be an optimist in the stock market at the present time," he added. The effect of his pronouncement on the stock prices was electrical. In a single day, Fisher Body fell 13 points, General Electric 8⅛, Du Pont 7½, Baldwin 6, American Can 5, National Lead...
...threshold of government. We may be called upon in the next few days to take on our shoulders the responsibilities of office. We shall take it. Not because we want it. Has anyone here been so foolish as to hasten the demise of a father who is about to leave him a bankrupt estate ? We know there are risks on every side, but if there are risks there is also a cause." Thus spake Ramsay MacDonald at the Royal Albert Hall in London at a Labor rally...
Meanwhile the Brazilians have learned that all our wives are foolish, all our youth is flaming, and all our sunsets are obscured by an enamoured couple locked in a long and lingering embrace. In America, the chief effect of this sort of stuff is a certain softening of the brain. If Brazil can eat it up, as after all, America, eats it up too and get away with it, without the accompanying cerebral debility, Americans will be the first to rejoice and incidentally, to profit...
...Surely, the press organization of the United States of America, headed by men of brains, should see that, following the material greatness conquered by the country, evolution must bring about the spiritual predominance equal in power, which is being; killed in the bud by just such foolish, inane and at times immoral sections as the feature service, which should be labeled 'for illiterates only...