Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legislation proposed in Congress will absolutely not help the farmer. The tariff now under consideration is designed to fool him not to help him. It is insincere and moreover economically foolish for our country which has become an exporting nation. Congress will not extend loans to the farmer and will not help him in sincerity until it has to; there will be no amelioration until the farmer organizes...
...period of doubt, anxiety and unrest here, but of great prosperity when compared with Europe. We have abundant resources of clothing and shelter. Hunger and cold can only be the result of the foolish functioning of our own economic and political system. If four fifths of our children were starving, if our industrial reorganization were broken down, then we could complain. As it is, we only have grounds for despondency if we have not the impulse of charity to respond to this plea. But I know it is sufficient for Americans only to know of the existence of these children...
...Broken Barriers, or Red Love on a Blue Island," is perhaps even more mirth-compelling in its descriptions of utterly foolish incidents following a shipwreck; treated with a vigorous hand, it hurls chunks of humor, as it were, at the reader, who, if he be in the right mood, finds his vision obscured at times by tears of laughter. Uncontrollable chuckling seizes him at Mr. Brown's ludicrously chivalrous attitude to his fair companion on the desert isle and their common adventures it is only a pity that the ending is rather weak...
...England has much to teach us in regard to the possibilities of individual instruction, either singly or in small groups, we must not forget that our lecture system gives us certain advantages which Oxford and Cambridge lack and which we should be very foolish to abandont. Our aim should be to retain the strong points of what we already have, and combine them in so far as possible with the benefits to be derived from the English system. The Alumni Bulletin...
Many questions are entirely foolish and unnecessary. Many can easily be answered by the student himself, if he would take the trouble to think and plan for himself, with the judicious use of the many pamphlets printed for that purpose...