Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie magazine called Film India, picked up by Producer Ken McEl-downey while making a film in India. One review is headlined: "Jugnu-a Dirty, Disgusting, Vulgar Picture." Sample text: "The entire affair is damn stupid and annoying. As for the players, Nur Jehan makes an utter fool of herself as ... the college girl . . . Her fat face refuses to move, and her song gestures provoke only revulsion and ridicule...
...Skiman, of course, is no mere skier. He holds that any fool can learn to slide down an icy hill on a pair of slats. True Skimanship consists of appearing as an expert without actually knowing how to ski. This appearance aids the Skiman's technique in such accompanying winter sports as snow-bunnying and bird-dogging, at which he is generally fairly adroit anyway...
...Easy to Fool. Under half a dozen aliases, buxom Mrs. Walker, an amateur miner who liked to be called Rimrock Annie, had a long history of falling on slippery floors, being bowled over by cars, being knocked down by people. In the process, she apparently fooled many doctors and quite a few insurance companies...
There is a bushel of fine war photography in the "Halls of Montezuma" and some suspenseful plot development from its director Lewis Milestone (whose "Salerno Beachhead" is playing down the street). Unfortunately, it tends to deify an individual whom I consider a damn fool and a type of thinking which could stand some careful serutiny, war threat or no war threat...
Outnumbered. In Los Angeles, Thomas R. Anderson won a divorce after testifying that his wife not only addressed him as "You fool," but taught their parrot...