Word: fooled
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...point of martyrdom-ideal for the man who wants to be a god to his cat. Persians (and all pedigreed long hairs are so named) have minds of their own, often forget early hygiene training. Their attitude is "Why bother?" The Burmese are wise, persuasive, and can freeze a fool owner in his tracks with a contemptuous stare and a flick of the tail. Abyssinians, purported to be the sacred cats of ancient Egypt, are strong, wildly willful, almost impossible to discipline. Only insiders know how rare and expensive Abyssinians are; they are often taken for alley cats...
...runs off to assignations he stays home to mind the babies; when she comes home he tells her how fresh her skin looks, how bright her eyes are. And sometimes, wretched to the core, he even makes an ass of himself in public to satisfy her need for a fool to deceive...
...when the stepfather, surveying what's left of the bike after it runs into a billy goat, shows no sign of anger. Doglike devotion sets in when papasha declines to punish Seryozha for insulting an insulting uncle-"My dear, we must not punish a child for calling a fool a fool." Absolute adoration is attained when the stepfather lets Seryozha spend a day at the collective farm he manages. "He's my Daddy!'' the boy thinks, popping with pride. "They wouldn't know what to do if he didn't tell them...
...There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else," he said. And, "It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be." He was a dreamer who knew the longings of ordinary men-to stuff their wives and put them on the mantelpiece, to bet the old plantation on an uncaught ace, while the paddle wheel goes pocketa-pocketa. He was a bad artist who drew wonderful, lumpy dogs, and was often mistaken for one of them by strangers who had never seen him throw a highball glass...
What words are locked in Thurber? There is rue and her (Thurber's battle of the sexes, of course); hurt (the battle does not go well); the rub (Walter Mitty playing Hamlet); rube (the author was an Ohio boy); and true (it is harder to fool little girls these days...