Word: fooled
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...from James Valentine's slim physique; and there is a good deal of Stan Laurel in this droll performance. But how could a director be so derelict as to let Toby's suggestion, "Now let's have a catch," elicit at once Andrew's comment, "By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast," with nary so much as one phrase of a catch sung between...
Died. Ed Wynn, 79, the "Perfect Fool"; of cancer; in Los Angeles (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...five mistresses later, Boswell was well established as an Edin burgh advocate, and at 29 married an impecunious cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. Father was furious, but Boswell insisted that he really loved the girl. And he really did. As the volume ends, the reader realizes that Boswell was less a fool than he liked to seem, though certainly more a fool than it is safe to be. Pottle leaves-him, as Wyndham Lewis put it, "teetering on the verge of sanity." And he leaves the reader fully prepared for the literary peaks and the emotional chasms that punctuate the landscape...
Said the sponsor of California's LSD bill, G.O.P. State Senator Donald Grunsky: "You cannot eliminate heroin and murder with laws, but you sure can cut down on them. A lot of kids would be tempted to fool with LSD, but will think twice if there is a law on the books...
...know," sighed Cassius Marcellus Clay, alias Muhammad Ali, daintily sipping a cuppa in London last week, "you can fool all of the people all of the time. Sonny Listen-he was supposed to be too mean for me. Floyd Patterson was too determined. George Chuvalo, why, Ali won't be able to stand up to his punches, they said. Now, it's Henry Cooper's left hook is gonna make history...