Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...venom at its prey's (or enemy's) face. A drop of its venom blinds the eyes. Dr. Monaelesser hoped that a drop properly treated might be beneficial in epilepsy, nervous disease of obscure causes. So the two learned men tried to make the poor venomous fool angry and despatch his poison at a piece of glass. Perhaps wiser than most snakes, perhaps as lazy as most, the cobra spewed forth only a thin and useless spray. The two wise men felt foolish...
...really enormous quantity of water in which he bathes each year, only his weight in gold. The ceremony of weighing His Highness takes place each twelvemonth at Aga Hall, Bombay; and then and there the golden wage is payed by representatives of the various Mohammedan sects. No fool, the Aga Khan keeps fat. Also he is at pleasure to stand in with the British Government,* which pays him privily a fat subsidy for his good offices among the Mohammedan subjects of George V, Last week at Delhi, the splendrous new Capital of British India, it was His Highness...
...streets, especially on Sundays, chugging and snorting and kicking up dust with a maximum of noise and a minimum of grace. They were called "automobiles" and Oelwein's farmers agreed contemptuously with turn-of-the-century cartoonists that the only difference between an automobilist and a dum-fool was that the dumfool was prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave little thought to Oelwein's farmers and automobilists but he went to the Chicago automobile show of 1905* and stood entranced in front of a beauteous white thingamajig with four...
...other girls at lunch, sings at the annual picnic, sings for the famed theatrical producer when he sends for her. Her singing and acting under Archie Mayo's directing make a trite story new and interesting, and give Warner Brothers a hit almost as potent as The Singing Fool...
Divorced. Ruth Elder, famed aviatrix; by Lyle Womack, of Balboa, C.Z., who charged cruelty. Example: when Aviatrix Elder returned from her trans-Atlantic flight she refused to kiss him, said "Don't be a damned fool." Husband Womack is now with the Byrd expedition. Said she, in Hollywood: "I still love...