Word: fooled
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...misquoted: "I know many boys who got married and went plumb straight to hell. I don't believe a man ought to get married unless he cannot help it. I mean to say ... a man who gets married without being wild about the girl is just a plain fool...
...vipers nor vixens. The scene is the South-an elegant summer boarding house run by a wellborn, middle-aged spinster. The guests are largely people of her own generation and kind-fiberless, frustrated people: a quiet, cynical drinker who has never married; a quiet-seeking general married to a fool; a confused young man halfheartedly about to marry the spinster's French niece...
...golden basso cantante (a lyric bass rather than a growler) with a natural authority onstage, Siepi won himself an opening-night ovation as the dignified king in Don Carlo. Then, a month later, he shed the dignity like a shirt, became an inspired and pompous fool as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville. He turned next to Mephistopheles in Faust, sang and acted with his customary conviction...
...movie magazine called Film India, picked up by Producer Ken McEl-downey while making a film in India. One review is headlined: "Jugnu-a Dirty, Disgusting, Vulgar Picture." Sample text: "The entire affair is damn stupid and annoying. As for the players, Nur Jehan makes an utter fool of herself as ... the college girl . . . Her fat face refuses to move, and her song gestures provoke only revulsion and ridicule...
...Skiman, of course, is no mere skier. He holds that any fool can learn to slide down an icy hill on a pair of slats. True Skimanship consists of appearing as an expert without actually knowing how to ski. This appearance aids the Skiman's technique in such accompanying winter sports as snow-bunnying and bird-dogging, at which he is generally fairly adroit anyway...