Word: foolish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Enters Mr. Stillings, angry. He drapes the nameplate with black crepe. He puts before it a floral wreath. He adds a placard reading: "Financially Dead." To reporters Mr. Stillings remarks: "Mr. Johnston's conduct has been extremely foolish and I intend to take severe measures with him." As one would suspect, Standard Diamond Co. deals in diamonds. Its patrons agree to pay $1 a week for 100 weeks, at the end of which period they receive a diamond worth $175. If they pay $2 a week for 100 weeks they get two diamonds, worth $350. The company reserves...
...obscure causes. So the two learned men tried to make the poor venomous fool angry and despatch his poison at a piece of glass. Perhaps wiser than most snakes, perhaps as lazy as most, the cobra spewed forth only a thin and useless spray. The two wise men felt foolish...
...some time, it would seem, the publishers of Life have been getting most of their fun out of reading the brisk, bright pages of their foolish contemporary and lifelong rival, Judge. Life itself didn't seem half so funny as it ought to be. So eventually they beguiled Norman Hume Anthony, editor of Judge, to come over and take Sherwood's place...
...consumption of potatoes has decreased 25% in the last two years. There was a crop surplus of 80,000,000 bushels in 1927. There will probably be a bigger surplus this year. These figures caused Gov. H. Clarence Baldridge of Idaho to flay "that foolish women's fad for slim figures'' before a convention of potato-growers in Chicago last week. Gov. Baldridge, as everyone knows, has both potato-growers and women among his constituents...
Neither engagement was a game; both were routs of such a nature as to make the Eastern teams look foolish. The boys from beyond the Rockies did not seem to take the game as seriously as their rivals; nor did it appear necessary for them to do so. It was like watching the Princeton Varsity play against St. Mark's. A great horde filled the Yankee Stadium to watch the Oregon Aggies stop Ken Strong, push over the supposedly indestructible N. Y, U. line and score 25 points...