Word: fool
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, with English titles by John Erskine, it finally opened at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Playhouse, got reviews enthusiastic enough to justify nationwide showing in small theatres. Good shot (a characteristic Guitry tour de force) : the narrator exhibiting the series of disguises by which he was accustomed to fool hotel detectives...
When the Connecticut Nutmeg reached its readers last week, it carried an enthusiastic boost for a stubby "flivver" biplane by illustrious Frank Hawks, pacemaker to U. S. commercial aviation. For his Nutmeg contribution he had been promised a year's subscription to the paper. "Fool-proof," wrote Frank Hawks of the Gwinn "Aircar" behind which for the last year he had been putting all his reputation and energy. "It will not spin and it will not stall. . . . With only an hour or two of instruction any average person (even the intelligentsia) can fly our ship. . . . A development that should...
Liberty is the God-given right of every man to make a fool of himself in his own way,, and then take the consequences. The New Deal is the attempt to eliminate the consequences...
...with good intentions (like Mr. Roosevelt) are not always wise, and smart men (like some other politicians) are not always good, and so some narrow-minded cranks like myself still cling with great longing to the liberty for which our fathers died, the God-given right to make a fool of ourselves our own way, instead of Roosevelt...
Stanford. Admirers compared Leland Stanford with Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great and John Stuart Mill, but Partner Collis Huntington described him tersely as "a damned old fool." His profound thought before he answered a question made people look upon him as a thinker, until they discovered that it took him as long to answer a simple question as a difficult one. Governor of California when the Central Pacific was started, Stanford loved the limelight as much as Huntington hated it, loved display, testimonials, speeches, luxury, built so many homes and farms that his vast estate was finally in danger...