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Died. Theda Bara (real name: Theodosia Goodman), 65. heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen (The Serpent of the Nile, Camille, The Vampire); of cancer; in Los Angeles. Cincinnati-born Theda Bara scored her first success in 1914 as the irresistible temptress of A Fool There Was ("Kiss me. my fool!"), was soon billed as "The Wickedest Woman in the World." became the subject of some of the most elaborate and preposterous pressagentry in screen history. Her first name, the publicists pointed out. was an anagram of "death.'' her last name "Arab" spelled backwards. She was born, they...
Your lacrosse team, playing five major games in six days, has undertaken a task which is fool-hardy. Tired athletes in any contact sport are subject to injury...
...intellectual honesty of the tinhorn crowd that sold them a bill of goods such a short time ago. And I hope we never forget... Perhaps if Professor Schlesinger were to expose himself to the common sense of the electorate for a change he might find that you can't fool the people all the time. But then, I don't suppose that is as dramatic as trying to organize things from the backroom. William E. W. Gowen...
...means of death with no end in sight-until there are no more immoral governments or there is another war that will not even be war as hitherto known, but a holocaustic catastrophe. Those who say that the whole business should stop are called "idealists"-a noble sort of fool. But they alone are using reason amidst the grotesque dance of death. Total, universal, simultaneous disarmament, to be completed within a definite time, ending armies, navies, and air forces, conscription and the manufacture of conventional and unconventional weapons, is the only disarmament that requires minimum external control. It would solve...
...strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke." The setting for Melville's vast practical joke 'is a Mississippi riverboat, named Fidèle, on a run from St. Louis to New Orleans. The day is April Fool's Day. The characters are a bustling "congress of all kinds of that multiform pilgrim species, man . . . farm-hunters and fame-hunters, heiress-hunters, gold-hunters, buffalo-hunters, bee-hunters, happiness-hunters, truth-hunters and still keener hunters after all" these hunters." The multiform hunters are uniform prey; they...