Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tutorial succeeds best when it involves only one student and one tutor. Then the motivation is not the grade, but the desire to prove one's thoughts to a man one respects. To be caught up unprepared in an individual tutorial makes one feel like a fool, and avoiding this is a greater motivation than the possibility of an honors grade at the end of the term...
...will sell. Jennie's voice is still maturing from callow to mellow, but it is husky and wholesome, sounds fine in simple arrangements of When I Fall in Love and the little-girlish My Very Good Friend in the Looking Glass, timidly torchy in I'm a Fool to Want You. From her Victor royalties, Jennie has an excellent prospect of becoming rich enough to retire before she is old enough to vote, but to do it she will have to outdraw some other new singers. A sampling of competing canaries...
...case of the Lampoon "fool" who tried to hold up Santa Claus was continued in East Cambridge District Court until next Thursday...
...officer who made the arrest claimed that Thompson knocked down one passerby and broke another's glasses when he grabbed a money basket from Santa Claus, portrayed by another 'Poon candidate, during a Fool's Week stunt on Wednesday...
Santa was not hit very hard, but he fell into the street as the fool dashed off. Several people gave chase, and one policeman was later quoted as saying, "It's a good thing he stopped because if he had gotten into the clear I'd have shot him for hitting Santa Claus...