Word: fooled
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...forces the duels before their time. One man he kills; the other is so drunk that Jackson fires in harmless disdain over his head. The last act he spends in the girl's cabin, in love making for a time, then in explaining that he is a troublemaking fool (which he is) and his departure...
...buyer. "What?" ejaculates the trader. "It's worth twice as much," and launches into a glorification of his horseflesh. "Ridiculous," answers the buyer. "Then there is no use talking," says the trader. The buyer turns his back and walks away with assumed indifference. "You're a fool," the trader shouts after him. "Nonsense, " the buyer calls back over his shoulder. Such may well be the beginning of a very successful bargain...
...want any smart Alec tryin' to teach mah child that man descended from a tadpole or a monkey. . . . When a man gets so smart that he cain't believe the Bible, he's jest too smart to know that he's a fool...
...Your garbage about Mr. Gladstone in Portraits and Criticisms has come to our knowledge. You are a liar. Because you slander a dead man you are a coward, and because you think the public will accept inventions from such as you, you are a fool...
...moderately well on the cramped stage of the short story. His happiest efforts are with humor and suspense, as Uncle James's Golf Match-a rib-splitter-and the titular tale of this collection, wherein a murder is averted by the veriest trifle. In other instances, suspense is fool's gold. The nugget of denouement fails to pan out. In still others- The Porterhouse Steak, about a starving but proud war hero; The Film That Never Was Shown, about a proud but starving cinema hero-the virgin clay of emotion appears exclusively, great lumps of it. In general...