Word: damphool
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...made as nearly extinct as the buffalo-who roared out popular ballads while he worked, and finished the day with dinner at Delmonico's. And unlike the supremely articulate Florentine, Saint-Gaudens simply could not talk about art; he was afraid, he explained, that he would say "some damphool thing...
...Miss Helen Feldman, a Chicago secretary, he wrote: "I wired a bunch of these fanatics in New York, and told them if these Communists and fanatical groups did not quit trying to pass such damphool legislation . . . that eventually the great mass of American people would revolt and figuratively liquidate every member of their groups...
...send the President, Senators and Congressmen home and keep an office boy at the White House to open the telegrams? Then when some damphool blasts the air with some other Utopian idea all we will have to do is to wire Washington; the office boys will count the telegrams and the stenographers will write the laws on the books, according to the majority vote...
Anybody who says this country is now again approaching prosperity is a damphool and the truth...
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