Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Love Me? (20th Century-Fox) is a tuneful, lushly colored, handsomely dressed, unusually foolish musical. Its three chief actors: popular Trumpeter Harry James, who makes hardly any pretense at acting but blurts his trumpet often enough and loud enough to please even his most insatiable fans ; popular Crooner Dick Haymes, who tears off a pretty love song with such little apparent effort that there's no good reason why he should be required to act at all; red-haired Maureen O'Hara, who photographs so beautifully in Technicolor that no one could possibly care a hang whether...
...haven't pounced on a bishop for a long time," wrote Columnist Gubbins. "For many years they have kept rather quiet. . . . But even if bishops . . . are not now saying the delightfully foolish things they used to say, they can always .be relied on to state the obvious at obviously the right time...
...childhood, he found them too painful to disclose even to his wife: not until he was almost 40 could he bear to relive them, and to cast them from him into David Copperfield. Father John Dickens, the original of Micawber-"a jovial opportunist . . . who borrowed from anyone foolish enough to make him cash advances"-took twelve-year-old Charles away from school, put him to work at a shilling a day in a blacking factory. Father and mother Dickens spent this period in a debtors' prison, where they were relatively comfortable, and safe from creditors. When they were released...
...peace at 10 o'clock in the morning? He might as well give up and go to his work for all the pleasure there was to be had in a soft, spring Dublin morning, what with youngsters careering about the streets laughing and singing and shouting their foolish heads...
...have knew womens to love veritable Satans and thank Jesus when they put their split hooves over the threshold." Nevertheless, Berenice decided: "What you ought to begin thinking about is a beau. . . . A nice little white boy beau." "What would I do with one?" demanded F. Jasmine. "Do, Foolish? Why, make him treat you to the picture show. For one thing...