Word: fooled
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...Britons except that Canadian-born Press Tycoon Baron Beaverbrook. Unheeded, his Daily Express roared, "This is what comes of meddling in a quarrel that is not ours! ... By sending in British troops we lay ourselves open to the eventual criticism of both France and Germany. . . . We are like the fool who interferes in another family's dispute...
Tradition of the last two years gives the advantage to a lineman, since Gundlach, the present captain, has played at guard and Hageman, the 1933 leader, occupied the position of end. Nevertheless, although the race can be narrowed down to these two men, no one can fool absolutely safe in backing one against the other...
...Reader Soule see p. 761 of the 3,350-page, 17 lb. 10 oz., New Merriam Webster for "dizzard: a jester, a fool, a blockhead...
...most famed of Miss Peck's exploits that the Peruvian Government in 1908 named the northern peak of Mount Huascaran Cumbre Ana Peck. Miss Peck scaled Cumbre Ana Peck on the sixth attempt but her Swiss guide lost his own mittens and one of hers because "the fool, he didn't put his foot on them...
...good and also that if they won the suit the continental United States sugar markets would be automatically closed to them. Of course this last contention is sheer bunk; and most of the AAA people knew it. But the purpose of Mr. Sturges' speech was to attempt to fool the people of Hawaii into believing that the Island would be economically ruined if the H.S.P.A. won! The Islands were not fooled but were enraged. Officials in Washington admitted the speech was a "trial balloon"; and Mr. Sturges was "transferred...