Word: fooling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were Hitler-I'd lease a house at Doorn, put in a good supply of logs, a couple of left-handed saws (in case Benito visits) and commence writing a sequel to Mein Kampj entitled-you can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time but Mr. Chamberlain-only once...
...that anyone can sing his ancestor's anthem. Last July, when Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel said no singer could be at home on a range like that, Lieut. Colonel Key-Smith snorted: "Any real tenor who says he can't sing The Star-Spangled Banner is a fool...
...much dead wood has to be hacked away before the course of true justice can be made to run straight, he makes clear in discussions of the nature of crime, arrest, the jury, the judge, tricks of the trade, fool laws. Clinching his points with many a keenly human story, he reviews such legal circuses as the trial of Bruno Hauptmann (Author Train thinks Hauptmann got what he should have got but not the way he should have got it), a legal lynching like that of Leb Frank, who, though probably innocent, was convicted of rape by a Georgia jury...
...lands, for which he allegedly received a $67,000 cut. Beefy Mr. Leche, always known to the late Huey Long as "Jughead," and a one-third inheritor of Huey's empire, had suddenly resigned his Governorship in June after 37 months' rule, saying: "I shall probably fool around some in the oil business." Indicted with him was Seymour Weiss, who polished Huey's manners, also inherited one-third. No. 3 inheritor was Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, whose prestige & power were still intact last week as Murphy's men plowed through the canebrake courthouses...
...makes no bones about being colloquial, passes as good usage in spoken English such a word as enthuse, such an expression as it's me, such pronunciations as ree'-search and ex-qui'-site. Professor Perrin thinks Americans had better stick to American words and not fool around with such tony Gallicisms as chic, enceinte and demimonde. Some foreign terms are handy: "Hors d'oeuvre is a useful word and not difficult to say, but it looks conspicuously un-English. If menu makers would spell it orderve, we could all be happy with...