Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whirlwinding political talents of Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse are held in high respect even by his enemies-and by no one more than Oregon's Republican Governor Paul Patterson. "Anyone," says Patterson, "who takes lightly the strength of Wayne Morse is being a damned fool." Last week Paul Patterson, no fool, announced that he will undertake the forbidding task of running against Morse for the U.S. Senate this year. Observers gave him a fair chance of winning...
...bedecked with ASCAP and belles, in a pleasantly goofy travesty of the olden daze into which Hollywood falls so often and so profitably. Danny is cast as a song-and-dance man at the court of a wicked king (Cecil Parker), but in reality Danny is nobody's fool. He is the secret agent of the Black Fox, a nobleman who hides in the forest like some robbing hood. With him hides the true king, still an infant, for whom the Black Fox plans to seize the power...
...five youths who first gathered under William G. Peckham's leadership in 1866, for example, advocated some astonishingly radical doctrines: chapel should no longer be compulsory; Harvard should become a University; and there should be closer student-faculty relationships. As any fool could plainly see, Peckham and his cohorts publishing the Advocate (then called the Collegian) were revolutionaries...
...lamb of The Lamb is 22-year-old Xavier Dartigelongue, a would-be seminary student. Like Dostoevsky's "idiot" Prince Myshkin, Xavier is a fool in Christ, a saint somehow leading himself to destruction. Xavier feels himself spiritually handcuffed to any human soul in need. On the train ride to the seminary, the handcuffs click when haughty Jean de Mirbel enters Xavier's compartment and reveals that he means to desert his wife...
...Daily Worker at a 35% cut in salary. He told a vivid story of his buffeting in that job (see below). Two years later he worked up "the strength" to quit both the party and the paper, and to stop being "a lunkhead," "chump" and "poor, miserable, tragic fool." A completely cooperative witness, Glaser nevertheless protested that "the sole benefit" of his presence at the hearing was "to make a sort of public spectacle of me, because of the dreadful, terrible mistake I made more than 21 years...