Word: fool
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Salt Lake City's death house Gunman Deering explained that he chose a firing squad because "when I was a kid raising hell everyone told me I'd end up on the gallows, so I thought I'd fool them. Also, there's an old saying I like: 'Live by the sword and die by the sword...
...upset the calculations of his opponents. Although tackling and blocking still win most football games, contemporary coaches must have a fat bag of offensive tricks (some have as many as 200). What the 1938 coach sees in his pipe dreams is a magician at every position-not only to fool his opponents but to please his public...
Students in the College's School of Business and Civic Administration have no great love for its dictatorial dean, Dr. Justin H. Moore. In 1934 he suppressed an April Fool issue of The Ticker, student weekly, for "obscenity." He once censored the Monthly, has suspended editors for sauciness. Last week student editors learned that in 1934 Dean Moore wrote a book called Mexican Love, hitherto unknown to U. S. readers because it was published in London by Herbert Jenkins, Ltd., publishers of popular fiction...
...Biggest gross movie earnings on record are The Singing Fool ($5,250,000), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ($4,500,000), Ben Hur ($4,000,000). Last week it became apparent that Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with U.S. receipts so far of nearly $4,000,000, British receipts estimated at $1,250,000, will presently set a new record of about...
...behalf of the public without political interference or dictation." Meanwhile, political interference and dictation throve mightily over half the continent of Europe. Critics these days are inclined to credit Adolf Hitler with intense political intelligence, but to a big majority of the world's artists he remains a fool as well as a nuisance. Hitherto, Hitler has contented himself mainly with declaring what bad art is, has attacked all more or less experimental modern art as "Jewish" and "Bolshevist." Last year he opened a hall of "degenerate" art in Munich which proved a great success (TIME...