Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lampoon Fools' Week joke backfired yesterday when one fool was arrested and jailed on charges of assaulting and robbing a fake Santa Claus. The fool was released on $1,000 bail pending arraignment today in district court...
Thompson then attempted to run off but was tackled by Patrolman Warren Jackson who took the fool to the Cambridge Police Station. Bail was originally set at $10,000, but acting Police Chief Richard J. Linehan later reduced it to $1,000 when informed it was a 'Poon stunt...
...football field. It's "touch," but it's murder. If you don't want to play, don't come. If you do come, play, or you'll be fed in the kitchen and nobody will speak to you. Don't let the girls fool you. Even pregnant, they can make you look silly. Above all, don't suggest any plays, even if you played quarterback at school. The Kennedys have the signal-calling department sewed up, and all of them have A-pluses in leadership. Run madly on every play, and make...
...Woods. To his contemporaries, Bruegel's art spoke more directly than to the present day. The point of such parables as that of the fool who walks past the bird's nest (see color) needed no explaining in his time. To satisfy an age when connoisseurs would spend hours before a painting "trying to find the owl in the woods." Bruegel packed his canvases with scenes of birds on the wing, half-hidden bird snares, distant village-green ballplayers, to give his viewers all the delights and surprises of a country stroll. To get his rustic costumes, characters...
VERLAINE: FOOL OF GOD (394 pp.)-Lawrence and Elisabefh Hanson-Random House...