Word: fooled
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...glass doors of the Executive Wing of the White House are apt to fool a stranger-they open inward, in violation of Washington's fire regulations. In the first weeks of the Eisenhower Administration, the doors rattled constantly, as new hands tried to familiarize themselves with the place. But by last week there was little fumbling at the doors, the President and his staff had shaken down, and the office was ticking competently along...
Realistic Odds. Headmaster Allan V. Heely, '19, of the Lawrenceville School, believes that the younger generation is "harder to fool than we were . . . [It] is fired by the same romantic ardors that bemused and entertained its elders; but it places more realistic odds on the probability of their fruition. This realism is not the expression of deep intellectual or philosophical convictions; nor is it to be interpreted as superficial adolescent cynicism. These young people are aware merely that you cannot count on as much as you used to be able...
...whirling blade overhead, which swishes into outer space all cold and fog and wind and rain, together with the moth and rust that corrupt, leaving the shipping clerk and his riveter wife snug and secure with their three children inside the wall-less vacuum of his dreams. If any fool objects that the neighbors can see in, there are always curtains, or something...
Douglas Bunce's brightly-drawn cover may fool some readers as to the true nature of the 'Poon this month, but the first story in the issue should dispell all naive notions. Titled "Enlightenment," its only virtue is John Updike's ability to catch the subtle pomposities of faculty conversations. As a story or essay it is inscrutable, and one puzzles as to how it worked its way into the pages of the 'Poon...
...beggar a cottage on the castle grounds, and said nothing when his guest swore, drank, tracked mud on the floor, spit on the rugs, ate like a hog and threw a glass of water in the butler's face. Everybody told the rich man that he was a fool to waste his time and money on such an ingrate-he was beyond help...