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Word: damphool (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bronze Mirrors | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: . . . and to the Nation | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

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