Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Theda Bara (real name: Theodosia Goodman), 65. heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen (The Serpent of the Nile, Camille, The Vampire); of cancer; in Los Angeles. Cincinnati-born Theda Bara scored her first success in 1914 as the irresistible temptress of A Fool There Was ("Kiss me. my fool!"), was soon billed as "The Wickedest Woman in the World." became the subject of some of the most elaborate and preposterous pressagentry in screen history. Her first name, the publicists pointed out. was an anagram of "death.'' her last name "Arab" spelled backwards. She was born, they...
...committed the tactical affront of putting Urban VIII's words and viewpoint in the mouth of the simplest-minded character in the Dialogue, a doctrinaire Aristotelian named Simplicio. The powerful Jesuit faction, which advised the Pope, had no trouble convincing him that he had been made a fool of and that Galileo's views were "potentially more disastrous than Luther or Calvin." In 1633 Galileo stood before the Inquisition...
...seemingly innocent natives soon prove to be suffering from human nature. They like private property and often marry for wealth or power rather than love. In their own primitive fashion, they are as firmly entered in the 20th century rat race as a Madison Avenue adman. No fool, Salesman Rantz snows the natives under with his bag of jokes-which terrify the islanders. He makes a laughingstock of the chief and moves into his job. By the native code losers in the grab for power are exiled to the other side of the island...
Your lacrosse team, playing five major games in six days, has undertaken a task which is fool-hardy. Tired athletes in any contact sport are subject to injury...
...intellectual honesty of the tinhorn crowd that sold them a bill of goods such a short time ago. And I hope we never forget... Perhaps if Professor Schlesinger were to expose himself to the common sense of the electorate for a change he might find that you can't fool the people all the time. But then, I don't suppose that is as dramatic as trying to organize things from the backroom. William E. W. Gowen...