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There is not a fool can call me friend, And I may dine at journey's end With Landor and with Donne...
...sets out through the jungle to look for God. She meets the God of Genesis, the God of Job, Ecclesiastes. Micah, Pavlov, a Roman soldier, Christ, St. Peter and a procession of churches, a caravan of intellectuals, Mohammed, an imagemaker, Voltaire, and finally Shaw. Naive but nobody's fool, the black girl questions everyone she meets but finds no satisfactory answers. The Gods of Genesis and Job enrage her and she attacks them with her knobkerry (that and a Bible are her only impedimenta). Christ she finds "a good-natured fellow who smiled whenever he could," but with...
...fool, War Lord Tang kept his whereabouts in Jehol a secret, last week, to avoid being bombed by Japanese planes. He used a portable wireless transmitter to give orders to his generals. For not selling out to Japan he was hailed as a hero in far distant teeming Chinese cities where heroism begins again, after centuries, to be fashionable...
...Utah class in Chinese political thought was thus reproved by its professor, Utah's Senator-elect Elbert Duncan Thomas: "If you are going to cheat or steal, get something worth while. Be clever and make the other fellow pay. Don't get caught. I have been fooling people all my life. The first people I fooled were my parents. When I grew up I fooled my wife when I married her. Now I have played a joke on 117,000 Utah voters. However, only about 2.000 of these knew whom they were voting for. There were some...
Agent Esty likes to remark, "If you succeed you're a genius. If not, you're a fool." For 17 years he has been succeeding. He got his first job with Chicago's Motion Picture News, then sold space for Butterick Publishing Co.'s Home Sector. He worked with several agencies before he went with J. Walter Thompson in 1925. There he was a vice president, handled the Lux (soap) account. His specialty is psychology. To study abnormal minds he has built up one of the largest private libraries on the subject. His studies...