Word: fooled
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...hours prowling the countryside, slept late and loafed through practice drills. But when he arrived in Rome, Hary was his old, unmellowed self. The great Jesse Owens, star of the 1936 Olympics, wanted to meet him. Snapped Hary: "I'm sorry. I haven't the time to fool with...
...Like "fool," "phony" and "reactionary," the term is arbitrary, part of a category that everyone may populate to suit his own bias. But in general, a book is a contrivance of ink, paper and glue, whose purpose is to instruct, amuse, edify, exalt, infuriate or pander. It may be good or bad, but its author intended it to be good. and wrote it by putting word after word. The nonbook is usually not written at all but assembled with the help of scissors or tape recorder or some other mechanical device. The concern of the nonbook manufacturer is not that...
...witty, partisan study of Charles II, who, often dismissed as a libertine and a fool, is here assessed as "the sanest and most civilized of monarchs." Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. An often touching, always entertaining account of the famed Mitford sisters, who loved too unwisely and too well, both in personal and political affairs...
...witty, partisan study of Charles II, who, often dismissed as a libertine and a fool, is here assessed as "the sanest and most civilized of monarchs." Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. An often touching, entertaining account of the famed Mitford sisters, who loved too unwisely and too well, both in personal and political affairs...
...14th century melodies orchestrated by Composer Claude Arrieu, Comedy combined humor, poetry, drama and sex in lurid mixture. Some of the sequences were unabashedly bawdy: an aged fool heaves over a medieval chamber pot, is lured into bed by a seductive young thing who promptly decamps with the old man's clothes and money. Some were queasily off-color: a visiting sultan caresses a "lovely young boy" only to discover a female under the fabric. One of the most famous of the tales had to do with the scholar who revenged himself on the lady who deceived...