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Asked if he questioned the right of the Senate to change its legislative mind, Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright said: "We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes...
...Spellmans' warehouse, the Government charged, was not big enough to store 100,000 bushels of grain in the first place. After the Spellmans started selling the grain, they took pains to fool any Government inspectors who might come along. At the top of the elevator, just below the catwalk, they hung small 275-bu. bins so that anyone looking in would think that the elevator was full. At the bottom, they kept just enough grain to cover the elevator door space, in case anyone peeked in. But they need not have been so careful. In the two years they...
...getting so that anyone is just a damned fool to buy anything at retail," said James Shea, a big Dallas electric-appliance distributor. Shea, like many another U.S. appliance jobber, is finding that more & more of his business is coming from "discount houses" which offer everything from washing machines, refrigerators and TV sets, down to fountain pens, at 20% to 30% below list price...
Frederic March is introduced more as a foil and a cohesive force for the other players than for any contribution of his own towards the "appearance-reality" conflict. He plays a bluff, well-meaning fool, who, through no fault of his own, manages to compromise the only woman in the play whom he doesn't care for. The insignificant problem which he has created is magnified by the Romantic Contingent for their own ends, and at length disrupts the marriage plans of an innocent young couple...
Shortly starred in Ned Buntline's Wild West show, Bill Cody became a promoter's dream. Unlike his roughhewn pal, "Wild Bill" Hickock, Cody never "spat the liquid on the stage" in whisky-drinking acts, never barked, "Any damn fool would know that was cold tea." He usually muffed, but never scorned such lines as: "Fear not, fair maid; by heavens, you are safe at last with Buffalo Bill, who is ever ready to risk, life and die if need be in the defense of weak and helpless womanhood." Then he stood blushing on the stage, "handsome...