Word: fooles
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...even a gag-loving nation between the eyes. Gags are too brassy, fleeting, unvisual. The true clown or jester tops the gag man by being both a richly eccentric character and a vividly expressive type-Chaplin is The Little Man, Durante The Wild Man, Ed Wynn The Perfect Fool. Hope has no eccentric character; but by giving his gags dramatic value he made himself a type-the dumb wise guy, the quaking braggart, the lavish tightwad. But this type somehow dissolves into a far broader and more significant one-thanks to his vibrant averageness, Hope is any healthy, cocky, capering...
...House Ways & Means Committee began last week to fool around tentatively with one of the major problems of the new session: what, if anything, to do about the renegotiation of war contracts...
Governor Dewey's statement upset many and old-line GOPolitician. (Said Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft: "That was a fool thing to do.") Leaders close to National Chairman Harrison E. Spangler went ahead with preconference plans to draft a policy which would offend no one. Some observers prophesied that this draft would be the only politically feasible result of Mackinac. But those wise in the ways of politcal campaigns guessed that Dewey was flying the popular beam...
...Marigny denied having been at Westbourne since March. De Marigny has never recalled what became of the shirt and socks he had on the day of the murder. Police testified that he had said he "hated him [Sir Harry] because he was a stupid old fool who couldn't be reasoned with." Sir Harry's manager, Newell Kelly, testified that De Marigny had threatened to kick his father...
...sont les neiges d'antan?' (But where are the snows of yesteryear?) "Here is your chance. This is where you go to town. Seize the nitwit by the scruff of the neck, march him out to the snow gauge and shout: " 'Right in that bucket, you fool!' "I'll bet you'll feel pretty good after that." O'Nolan knows well that the funda mental internal policy of his Government is the revival of Irish language and Irish culture. He speaks and writes Irish accurately and fluently, but he is willing to urge...