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...Diehards' overweening confidence that the Government will secure a second term of office at the next general election will soon prove a fool's paradise. It's as plain as houses that at least 60% of the country will be against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Parliament's Week: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...slate which the wooden boy holds up in front of National Refining gasoline stations. Samples of Sir Charles Frederick's wit: "Love is fanned by a bank draft"; "Crossed cheques cheer cross women"; "A leaf began the fall"; "A little blonde is a dangerous thing"; "There is no fool like an old fool -unless it is a young one"; "Some cats have nine wives"; "Chickens should be well dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tittle-Tattle | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Seen earlier in the year in Boston without Mary Boland who is now in it. She is a cradle-snatching fool. The audience is generally more amucing than the show, but they are uproarious...

Author: By T. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

...Dempsey's last fight he got $300,000 regardless of whether he won or not. Fight like that takes all the incentive away. It made very little difference to him whether he won or lost. Believe me when I got into the ring with Sullivan I fought like a fool because it either would make or break me and of course Sullivan was fighting the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORBETT HOLDS BOXING TODAY IS A WANING ART | 4/12/1927 | See Source »

...miracle be doubted, the Berlin Acht Uhr Abenblatt published photographs showing Edward of Wales at every state of his triumphant "surprise visit" to Berlin. The paper sold fast on the boulevards, and few readers turned to the last sentence of the story on an inside page which read: "April Fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wales Unter Den Linden | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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