Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Untamed (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Any picture acted by so handsome a young woman as Joan Crawford is not hard to watch, even one so foolish as Untamed. There were possibilities of satire in the idea of a girl brought up in a South American jungle becoming a social success in a modern U. S. city. These possibilities were neglected; Untamed becomes a routine, highly improbable love story built around the man Miss Crawford meets on the boat coming north. Except for a song in The Hollywood Revue, it is the first time her voice has been photographed. She sings with...
...lack of confidence in the economic future ... of the U. S. is foolish. . . . Words are not of any great importance in times of economic disturbance. It is action that counts. . . . The next practical step is the organizing and coordinating of a forward movement of business through the revival of construction activity, the stimulation of exports and of other legitimate business expansion...
Picking any sort of "all" team is in a good many ways a foolish way to waste time, because everybody knows that just because so and so says one player is better than another it doesn't make him actually so. But just the same every one is entitled to his own opinion and in most cases it, is just as liable to be right as the next fellow's all of which means that picking mythical football teams at least isn't an injurious way to waste time...
False Lindbergh Book. Some foolish crook took the pains to write a book titled We Fly and, purporting to represent Col. Lindbergh, tried to sell it to Dorrance & Co., Philadelphia publishers, as his work. The attempted fraud was uncovered last week when George Palmer Putnam, New York publisher of Col. Lindbergh's We, asked Lindbergh if he had changed publishers. He declared that he had written no other book, had no intention of writing...
Three compositions by Handel will be offered for the first time in this country with an orchestra: "May No Rash Intruder", "The Foolish Lover Squanders", and "The Heart That's Contented". Other numbers on the program are Brahm's "Liebeslieder and Neueliebeslieder", and Bach's "Now Shall the Grace...