Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pleasing, and puts reader and editor on a friendly footing at once. But we would not imply that this favorite paper is deficient in articles of real merit. As to the Phillipian, we would beg leave to remark that when it calls a writer in the Exonian a "consummate fool" and "an egregious ass," it does a very contemptible thing, unworthy of amateur journalism, which has, hitherto, for the most part been free from vulgarity, at least...
...MEPH. Fool that I was to think he would not find
...harder against our boat. I can't for the life of me say just how it happened, but I believe she quoted something to the effect that troubles were billows on life's ocean; when I proposed that we buffet them in company, and made as big a fool of myself as such circumstances require, promising eternal devotion, and expressing an ardent desire to die for her sake a number of times...
...College papers please copy, with the addition, "This low, dastardly, ill-bred attack is only a mark of the idiotic brain which invented it. Such vile, underhanded reptilian onslaughts can only have proceeded from a narrow, bigoted, Pharisaical fool." That, we think, is the usual style...
...Lord!" I groaned to myself, "it's all up with me now. That miserable fool, Billy Lawson, who was down last week and lost $5 to me at poker, has given me dead away. No more shall I fish the streams of Smithfield Centre, or stroll in the woods with my pretty cousin Priscilla. Uncle Luther will never invite again such a godless sinner as I am to spend the summer at his house...