Word: fooled
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...played by Mr. Morey's collaborator, Robert Paul), who wanders into Babel, promptly sells the Babelites the world, and, to dispose of a bag of cement, persuades them to build a tower commemorating their purchase. Mr. Paul's loquacity dazzles and overwhelms them; the only person he doesn't fool is his Woman (Tammy Miller), briefly Babel's Grabel, who knows (and shows) that only flesh is real--not words...
Kaye's special quality is a generosity of spirit that is contagious. He plainly likes people, and even when he mimes their foibles, he does it with delight and affection. His jokes demand no butt and draw no blood; he neither (like Benny) lets himself play the fool, nor (like Hope) does he mock the foolishness of others...
...time in Lowell House and particularly on her life with its Master. They were married April 1, 1937. "Well that's perfect," she explains, "I mean, you couldn't have echoes a better date. It seems to me that life has gone on being April the first, April Fool's all the time. We certainly couldn't have had a happier marriage...
...military chiefs had an empire-building yen for them. They included a nuclear-powered aircraft, killed in 1961 after 15 years' work and the expenditure of a billion dollars; a jet-powered flying boat on which $450 million was spent; the Goose decoy missile, a pilotless aircraft to fool enemy radar, canceled after $80 million in costs because the contrivance "could not be recovered once it was launched." As closely related to the TFX situation, he cited the Navy's attempt to develop two fighters, the F4H-1 and F8U-3, that were so similar in purpose that...
...dictionary was a prodigious ("amazing, astonishing, portentous, enormous") feat, a one-man job ("a low word now much in use") comprising 2,300 folio pages of definitions and examples accomplished in nine years (from 1746 to 1755), with the help of only six copyists. Only a fopdoodle ("a fool") or a slubberdegullion ("a paltry, dirty, sorry wretch") would deny the greatness of the work, and only one who had carried it out had the right to define a lexicographer (as Johnson did in the dictionary) as "a harmless drudge." Privately, he was not so humble. As he told his Boswell...