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Word: fool (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snorted he: "They can't fool me that way. I know God doesn't use the mails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Stooping Oak | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Most serious off-screen defect in the Mauchs is their enthusiasm for capitalizing their similarity of appearance to fool acquaintances. When not practicing this hobby, the Mauchs are easily distinguish able. Billy wears glasses. Contrary to legend, Mrs. Mauch can always tell her sons apart when they are awake. She sometimes makes a mistake when both are asleep. To avoid waking the wrong twin the morning when only one has to go to work early, the Mauch family has worked out a system. The Mauch who has worked late the night before leaves make-up on his arm. Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mauch Twins & Mark Twain | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...white man was a fool. He had tried to build a bird, had achieved only a dead fish, although in strict fairness, it was admitted that he might have something in the big bow, if he ever learned to make a proper arrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...April Fool's Day was a complete flop this year; the Cambridge Fire Department received no false alarms, and the University received no telephonists asking to speak to Mr. Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APRIL FOOL'S DAY FEATURED BY SCARCITY OF JOKESTERS | 4/2/1937 | See Source »

This week-end the Vagabond will spend reading the newly discovered "Letters from Fanny Brawne", which he hopes will make Mathew Arnold look the hidebound fool the Vagabond has always thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

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