Word: tomfool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England's New Forest while strolling with Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey before World War I. At all times T.R. reserved his deepest contempt and his deepest rage for "the mollycoddle vote," "miserable little snobs" and "solemn reformers of the tomfool variety." They yelled back "Showoff!", "Blow-hard!", "Jingo!", "Cad!" T.R. was constantly embroiled in controversy and debate, and he reveled...
...Barrie and Walt Disney. Barrie's durable 49-year-old play about "the boy who would not grow up," with its flights of fancy and its flights through the window, is made to order for the animated cartoon. It is full of "pretend" and all such "various tomfool things" as pixies, pirates, Indians and mermaids, who romp among the grottoes, glades, coves and lagoons of the magical isle of Never Land...
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