Word: fooled
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...simply eaten up with a gigantic bitterness at a world which is given reason and at the same time irresistible fate, luck or a divinity that rips reason to ribbons. Werfel is annoyed because God has given him just enough sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which was born a human monstrosity.* After 23 years of confinement it escaped and became the symbol of a revolt of the beggars. A grim and horribly concluded love story runs somewhat amuck among...
...based on an old one of William Collier's called Never Say Die, and relates the adventures of a young man whom the doctors had allotted one more month to live. Said critics: "It is funny, is it not? how fellows like that in fiction always make a fool out of the doctors. The American Medical Association ought to do something about...
...upon his fiftieth anniversary the CRIMSON here extends to Lampy its congratulations, and adds the wish that be may live to be a hundred. There's no fool like an old one, and it may be Lampy will discard his youthful aged jokes and on his own account grow witty wise...
...though I have never taken a course in the subject and hence have no valid right to an opinion--tripe is not fish. Yet the mere fact that it is not fish affects me but little. I guess I must belong in Anatole France's category of those who "fool themselves to live". For I see no particular reason to be absolutely clear about the what and why of a thing like tripe. Be it fish, fowl, beast or bug it smells the same--cooking...
...really havn't got an awful lot to say in favor of the lyrics or the staging or the book of "The Fool for Scandal", but we are heartily in accord with the spirit in which in is given. In any musical comedy, whether amateur or professional, it is important that the actors should realize at the outset that their efforts are not going to revolutionize the drama, but may very likely serve as excellent entertainment for several odd hundred people. To aftain that end all the necessary seriousness of rehearsals and first performances must be dropped when the show...