Word: fooled
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Some of the material in the Lampoon is silly enough to be laughed at by a person drunk enough. It is fairly easy to be foolish, but it is the hardest thing in the world to be a clever Fool. Both wit and humor require intelligence, wit chiefly in the manner of presenting an idea, humor in the sympathetic study of life's absurdities. Satire, another form of art that makes its points by emphasis on the absurd, depends also for its force chiefly on the intelligence behind the ridicule. For satire is a form of criticism and as criticism...
According to "comparative scores" any fool can dope out that because Princeton defeated Harvard 10 to 3 and Yale beat Princeton 13 to 7 Yale is 13 points ahead of Harvard before the opening whistle blows. But we must not forget that half of the Princeton team was wheeled from the hospital to the Bowl. Yet that is about all that can be said to disprove the notion that Yale has the edge...
...position was very hard to fill and very little thought of by those who might be competent. He was the object of much abuse and there were few workmen who would concede that he possessed the least spark of justice or honesty. Consequently, the tendency was to try to fool him as often as possible by 'stalling.' At times even the foreman, ignoring the fact that much of the spoiled work could be accounted for by lack of proper supervision on his own part, was more inclined to blame the prices and give the man his support in such...
...legislation proposed in Congress will absolutely not help the farmer. The tariff now under consideration is designed to fool him not to help him. It is insincere and moreover economically foolish for our country which has become an exporting nation. Congress will not extend loans to the farmer and will not help him in sincerity until it has to; there will be no amelioration until the farmer organizes...
...Monday night at the Colonial, Ed Wynn, supported by an able cast, gave his "Carnival", a two-act, thirteen scene entertainment. As Raymond Hitchcock was the centre of his "Hitchy-koo", so Ed Wynn is the center of his Carnival. In him, his self-styled "entertainment" has a "Perfect Fool" with spontaniety, cleverness and humor. In explaining the coming scenes, Mr. Wynn gives his ideas to the audience very well but surprises them by following with scenes entirely extraneous to the outlined plot...