Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the minor Potter characters-Samuel Whiskers, Mr. McGregor, Old Brown-are as famed among Potterites as her heroes and heroines. And many a Potter phrase has become traditional-e.g., Jemima Puddle-Duck's foolish first thoughts on meeting a dashing stranger (who of course turns out to be a fox): "Jemima thought him mighty civil and handsome." Or the note left by the mice to explain why they had not finished the last buttonhole on the coat they made for the old tailor of Gloucester: "No more twist...
...ever worked out a just system of economic payments for the Marines at Tarawa. No one has been foolish enough...
...incident" was a small explosion touched off by the Stars & Stripes in Italy in an editorial entitled: "He Wants Home." Sure, the U.S. doughboy wants to go home, said the editorial, but "there is hardly a thinking man . . . who doesn't admit that it would be foolish to throw away all the battle experience picked up by our veteran troops by sending them home to sit in garrisons...
...Father. This Saturday is Myslinski's last game. Like every one before it, at Army and at Steubenville, his father will miss it. Feliks Myslinski's explanation is simple: "Every good day it seems I had to work. Bad days only foolish people out in weather unless necessary...
...subconscious jealousy of Novelist Davis, froths out a shelfload of bestsellers. As Author Hopkins' royalties soar, her husband (John Loder) sinks more & more to the status of a cute trick to have around the house. He falls in love with Miss Davis, who refuses to betray her helpless, foolish friend. In early middle age Miss Davis has a discreet affair with a naval officer ten years her junior. But he prefers Miss Hopkins' daughter, runs away with her, leaves Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins like a pair of dangling participants in a sentence of slow death. Georgia-born...