Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a courageous paper in the South. It is the Enquirer-Sun of Columbus, Ga. In spite of K. K. K.'s to right and left, in front and rear, it says: " The whole Kukluxklan Kamelia Komedy is so foolish that one no longer wishes to protest against it because it is anti-Negro, anti-Jew and anti-Catholic, but rather because it makes the people of all the South appear idiotic when they continue to accept seriously Klonvocations and Klonciliums, and tolerate the fantastic ravings of men who are fattening on the money of deluded simpletons...
...crime and divorce by expressing his scholarly opinion that all women's colleges should be burned to the ground. Kinder, Kuche, and Kirche, in the good old German sense, was the proper province of female aspiration, and any attempt to educate them beyond the three K's was foolish and dangerous. The result of Mr. See's bull was to increase the endowment funds of Adelphi College (the specific object of his wrath) and to delight the many thousand intelligent Americans of both sexes who love to catch a Babbitt out of bounds...
...last score of years, American law-makers have multiplied petty regulations with such unrestricted ardor that the wonder is that any statute is obeyed without compulsion. Examples of foolish, needless legislation are plentiful. In South Carolina, the playing of pool or billiards has been forbidden. The prohibition of checkers, of cards, of tiddledy-winks may well follow. Arkansas has been considering a bill abolishing bathing in the waters of the state, and minutely describing the sort of garments appropriate for public exercise. Arkansas athletes will appear in trunks extending below the knees, and short-sleeved shirts, and memories...
...title frighten you. It is a very accurate name that introduces one of the most delightful little books that has been written in many a day. Although the subject is the politics of a university, the description might well apply to any politics. But it would be foolish to try to point out the ways in which the book could be applied to other fields; nothing could improve it. Never was a more subtle, more penetrating, more ironical cosmography written...
...diminutive army, attempt to defend their action by pointing to the C. M. T. C. students as "our able defenders of the future," are not only deceiving their constituents, but themselves. In these days of wars and rumors of wars, such deception is, to put it mildly, foolish, for to develop a false trust in our military resources at such a time might well result disastrously...