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Word: foolishment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foolish thing for the Crimson to print, but just one of those boyish things that will happen," Potter said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Man to Man | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

...recent editorial attack the Harvard Crimson on the mural paintings by John Singer Sargent which adorn the walls of the Widener Memorial Library is just a "foolish, boyish article", and official Harvard intends to ignore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Man to Man | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

...paintings have their place and will stay. The editorial was a very foolish thing for the Crimson to print." --Boston American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Man to Man | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

...barrage of reasons has been advanced for the recent rupture. There is neither rhyme nor reason in airing these here. It all seems to revert to a conjecture as to the mental age of those who allowed a foolish publicity stunt on the part of a group of half-baked humorists precipitate what may have been some subconscious foreboding on the part of either university into a heated altercation rather than an intelligent discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Friendly Game of Golf | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...near Port Arthur on the Yellow Sea-contains 35 pleasingly proportioned young women of assorted races, with their servants. Last week these young women were extremely anxious about their Chinaman and whence next month's rent was coming. They went down on their marble terrace and peered through foolish, expensive little opera glasses out over the Yellow Sea, strained their eyes toward the Chinese coast, tried to see a low, rakish ship. Aboard would be, they hoped, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World," as Marshal Chang Tsung-chang is called by one of his English-speaking women, Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Despair in Dairen | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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