Word: fool
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before April Fool's Day last week Orator Goebbels again let himself go: "The Church may have the mandate of God. but we have the mandate of the people. THIS WORLD IS OURS...
...call upon all those who feel as we do to refrain from voting at all. Perhaps by our very silence, the insignificance of these planned and plotted elections will be apparent. You can fool some of the people some of the time . . . but four years of subtle tyranny is too much. Sic semper tyrrannis. T. Ryden Skinner '38. Jay W. Kaufmann...
Seriously, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is our nomination for the picture of the year; it gives new life to the cynic, new hope to the skeptic, new faith to the agnostic; to the weary it gives strength, to the fool wisdom, to the frenzied calm. In short, every man, woman, and child in the country should consider it their duty to live, love, and learn with Snow White...
Author O'Connor writes in a bold, colloquial, summarizing prose, with paragraphs trailing off into dull anticlimaxes ("When he got so he couldn't stand it any longer he'd go into Phoenix and get blind-leaping drunk and spend too much dough and make a fool out of himself"). Inadequate for detailing such complex figures, as O'Rielly, this style works well in accounting for dumb, dangerous Bill Crockett, who develops from a cowboy to a highwayman, but can never understand why his companions grin knowingly or sigh wearily when he talks about...
...gangling Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair ("Red") Lewis told newsmen that nothing in the world as he finds it annoys him. Asked one reporter: "Does the poverty in the world annoy you, Mr. Lewis?" Annoyed, Author Lewis jumped up, flared: "Don't you try to make a damn fool out of me, young man. God did that already, and you don't need to try to help...