Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attend an officers' training camp. "If it is a long war," he says, in an article in the Yale News, "there will be plenty of time for the under-age men to become old enough to obtain commissions; and if it is a short one, it would be a foolish waste for them to leave college now and then never see service even in the ranks. You must consider how infinitely more important officers are than privates. Napoleon fell largely because he lost all his veterans in the retreat from Moscow and there were no experienced men to lead...
...what dumb shows we have seen are of the slap-stick, rough and tumble type which fill our vaudeville houses. Here, however, is a play in which a singular art has been carried to its height. We never miss the speaking, for we are absorbed in the delightfully foolish little plot and amazed at the grace of the whole thing. Pierrot's home and phrynette's boudoir furnish two admirable settings for an entire evolution of emotions and from nonsense to a tinge of tragedy, we are appealed to from a variety of feelings...
Perhaps the difference between the wisest and the most foolish of men is that the brain of the wisest would fill a larger nutshell. Here is your education...
...young they are," was the inevitable comment, "how young, and how remote--from all the pulsating, beautiful things, which make the heart to beat and the wrinkles to come. After all, how foolish a thing is a college. Lord a Mercy, was I ever--so remote--as these." Boston Record...
...England! It was necessary to create it. It was created, and it filled the bill. It came in response to a demand of the human heart. There are those who think that a mere universal exchange of gifts most of which nobody wants, is a foolish institution; but the fact remains that our people once did not have it, and deliberately introduced it in its plentitude. They find it somehow well worth while, and they will cling to it. The ordinary observance of Christmas may represent a popular weakness, but if so it is a weakness of 99 human hearts...