Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Broken Barriers, or Red Love on a Blue Island," is perhaps even more mirth-compelling in its descriptions of utterly foolish incidents following a shipwreck; treated with a vigorous hand, it hurls chunks of humor, as it were, at the reader, who, if he be in the right mood, finds his vision obscured at times by tears of laughter. Uncontrollable chuckling seizes him at Mr. Brown's ludicrously chivalrous attitude to his fair companion on the desert isle and their common adventures it is only a pity that the ending is rather weak...
...England has much to teach us in regard to the possibilities of individual instruction, either singly or in small groups, we must not forget that our lecture system gives us certain advantages which Oxford and Cambridge lack and which we should be very foolish to abandont. Our aim should be to retain the strong points of what we already have, and combine them in so far as possible with the benefits to be derived from the English system. The Alumni Bulletin...
Many questions are entirely foolish and unnecessary. Many can easily be answered by the student himself, if he would take the trouble to think and plan for himself, with the judicious use of the many pamphlets printed for that purpose...
tionist brigade, made up of people who are said to "think they know much better what is good for other people than such foolish folk can possibly know themselves." These foolish folk are said to be so mad that if successful they will not stop with prohibition, but will decide what Scotchmen are to eat, how Scotchmen are to do their work, occupy their leisure run the home and bring up the children...
...true American, take his stand with the party among whose leaders Governor Calvin Coolidge and Mayor Ole Hanson stand foremost." A Harvard Speaker Sweet! Those who are Democrats, or who are for the man and not for the party, must feel themselves out in the cold with the foolish virgins or over on Deer Island with the Reds. Perhaps, outcasts that we are, we may point out that party is a means and not an end; that the good American, the intelligent American, votes the Republican or Democratic ticket not because he is a Republican or Democrat, but because...