Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christians would join the Wise Men we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised and aid the neighbor in his need. Do not boast that you have built churches and endowed masses. God will say: 'What to me are your churches and masses? . . . Who told you to build churches? I have set before you spiritual temples...
Shirt-Sleeves Trend. What bothered Sara Roosevelt more was that Franklin seemed to be slipping away from her. She and "dear Franklin" argued over the role he should play in life. In a long, grande dame letter to "Dearest Franklin and Dearest Eleanor" she wrote: "The foolish old saying 'noblesse oblige' is good and 'honneur oblige' possibly expresses it better for most of us. One can be as democratic as one likes, but... we owe a great example." She sorrowed over "the trend to 'shirt sleeves...
...thanks to the powers concerned for no seating arrangements in middle and upper group courses. For the first time since its inception, co-education is proving its worth. This is no reason to slight the dark meat, plum pudding, and everything else in a Thanksgiving dinner--that would be foolish indeed. But before all men leave their classes and Gather Together, let there be praise, blessings, and amens for the kind official who permitted the Radcliffe girl to choose a seat and neighbor. This is reason for heartfelt thanksgiving...
More tutored in modern theories (and notably by Harvard economists), the Democrats on the whole will adhere to modern principles; they long ago buried Gladstonian theories of public finance. But the Democrats would be foolish indeed if they were wedded to a single principle of public policy. Modern fiscal policy concentrates on the stability objective; but the Government must also be concerned with equity. Fiscal policy in a great inflation may well call for sales taxes and heavy income taxes on the masses. Indeed, the 1948 tax bill reflected incorrect fiscal policy because it involved reduced taxes...
...well-run inn ... as a useful and necessary amenity. I suppose it is true to say that all through our history the two chief meeting places of the community have been the church and the inn. Indeed there should not be antagonism between them, and it is foolish narrow-mindedness that makes people think a pub to be a wicked place. Its purpose is to encourage fellowship and happiness, surely two marks of the Christianity that the church aims to produce...