Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Herald Tribune; it urged House leaders to have their heads examined. Snorted the New York Times: "The most one can say is that they were performing a sort of sacred dance before the altar of what they took to be political expedience. . . . Their gyrations were irresponsible, eccentric and foolish...
...pains to explain about themselves and Communism, at a Chicago press conference. Bogart read a prepared statement about their trip to Washington (six weeks ago) to protest the Reds-in-Hollywood investigation: "I am not a Communist . . . I am not sympathetic . . . I see now that my trip was illadvised, foolish and impetuous . . . I acted impetuously and foolishly on the spur of the moment, like I am sure many other American citizens do at many times." Then he put the script down and explained: "We went in green. They beat our brains...
...himself had one, said Mencken, "in my cellar at this minute, gathering dust"-and he offered it to "any gallery that wants it, entirely free of all cost or expense." The Baltimore Museum of Art got the painting (an abstraction done in Benton's "earlier and more foolish days"), and Mencken asked as his reward an exemption on his income...
...idea turns out to be neither novel nor bright. All that Marlene Dietrich could possibly prove in such a role is her competence as a comedienne, which she has already repeatedly proved, with much better material. The deliberate liquidation of all her other assets seems as pound foolish as it would be to cast Garbo as Topsy...
Both Wellesley and Radcliffe students jumped to the defense of their Alma Maters last night, after reading the recent claim of author Philip Wylio that "a college education will probably make a girl less happy, more foolish, not very knowledgeable, and a total failure as a mother...