Word: silliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silliest kudos of the week was announced by Villanova College's President, Rev. E. V. Stanford, who awarded an honorary doctorate of laws for "humanitarian work" to Radio's Major Edward ("Amateur Hour") Bowes...
...Connell, is "even more silly and more senseless than ever. . . . With our Blessed Lady, Mary, the Mother of Christ, ever before their eyes as the model of Christian womanhood, how is it . . . that [Catholic women] venture to enter even the portals of the temple of God clothed in the silliest raiment of those who are dedicated to the temple of shame...
...Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles. The other half is devoted to a dull narrative in which James Stewart and Joan Crawford, as a pair of professional skaters (who never skate), achieve fame in the movies. Silliest sequence: Stewart's heroic farewell to his skating partner (Lew Ayres) when their act breaks...
That contemptible, outrageous article on Groton School, TIME, July 25, is the silliest thing I have ever heard of. There is hardly a word of truth in that hideous article. How can you print such trash...
...That Roosevelt 'bewitches' people," challenges Ludwig, "is one of the silliest objections raised by his opponents." Far from his personal charm being fake, says Biographer Ludwig, it is the very key to Roosevelt's unique "destiny," of the greatest "symbolic significance for our age," the reason, in fact, that "the spirit of the biographer found itself akin to that of his subject." As here traced, the decisive fact is that Roosevelt was born of Hudson River landed gentry, thus naturally acquired simplicity of manner, a distaste for arrogance and showoff...