Word: fooled
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...Whoever gave testimony to the effect that I made such remarks must have come into the audience right in the middle of the speech. What I did tell them was this, that crime is a commercialized war against society and that anyone who fights in that war is a fool. I told the men what those who were at Norfolk were there because they had fought in a losing fight against society, in a war in which almost all the participants lose anyway. I pointed out to the men that they had a much bigger war ahead of them than...
...more serious interpretation as a statement of the author's real opinion. As such it is a prize example of that absurd undergraduate pomposity which has reduced so-called Undergraduate Opinion to a negligible factor outside the college world. Does Mr. Wade realize that he is merely making a fool of himself--that even an experienced literary critic of mature age and opinions could not make such a statement with impunity...
Superintendent Becker: Well, it happened some time ago. The thief [an assay office employe] was a damn fool. He had hidden the gold under his sweater while at work. At the end of the day he walked out and sold it to a dealer who melted it and then had the nerve to try to sell it back...
...hard academicians schooled in the embalmed jingo of a dead era, it was not Professor Taussig nor Professors Carver nor Burbank nor any other of the great Civil War school, but a new-comer, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, J.U.D., ex-finance minister of Austria, internationally known economic theorist, and no fool, who showed his hand...
...maybe I should not kick about the old fool's nasty moods and his awful preaching, for he has shown me most of the university, and though he did not take me to a movie, he took me to a very odd lecture. The man who was lecturing did not seem to make much sense, but the students scribbled in note books apparently taking down everything he said. I asked Uncle Harry why they wanted to take so many notes, and he said he did not know, especially the notes of this professor, who, he said, did nothing but wallow...