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...when Eddie was twelve, the principal of his school asked his mother whether Eddie was feeling better. Said his mother: "I didn't know he wasn't feeling well." Eddie had been playing hooky for 43 days, using his lunch money for carfare out to Latonia, to fool around the horses. His father read him the riot act and sent him back to school. Six months later his parents caught him driving back from the race track again in the family Packard...
...money away to the poor and even offers to assassinate a duke for the anarchists. But not before she has given Hyacinth a taste of princely living and watched him fall in love with her. Says the princess: "I'm convinced that we're living in a fool's paradise, that the ground's heaving under our feet . . . I'm one of those who believe that a great new deal is destined to take place...
...fact, Senator J. Howard McGrath, Democratic National Chairman, was wrathful. "This device will fool no one," he said. Harry Truman, however, did not feel so bad. He met Joe that night at the Gridiron Dinner and said to him: "You can have him, I don't want...
...system is built on the "drawing" theory--pull a man out of position and confuse him so that he can't do anything positive, and his size is immaterial. "Fool 'em, don't bounce 'em," says Valpey. Of course, when the other team has the ball, you've got to bounce 'em. That is why every afternoon Valpey has his men belting each other around the practice field near Dillon Field House. "We're in the bumping stage now," he says, "and it's all boom-boom-boom till...
...early popularity did not fool Nash; he was plagued by a sense of his own inadequacy as well as by ill health. Leaning on his silver-headed cane, he explored the English countryside, gradually learned to search out the geometry existing in what he saw, and to base his designs on that...