Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This season she sang in two Broadway flops, felt that her experience had been rounded out, tried again. Successful, she expects to start with roles like Musetta, Micaela, is confident she can make her $1,000 prize money go a long way because "I am rather a frugal fool...
...music is tuneful, if not outstanding, and the best songs are probably "That's the Girl For Me", "La Camarisita," a tango written and played by David S. Burt '40, and "A Fool Was I"; some of the best lyrics we have heard in any college show are those to "We Planned It That Way." Throughout the show, the choreography, though it sometimes descends to every man for himself, is amusing and particularly so in the finale to the First Act in which hirsute and be-gartered athletes disport themselves in the can-can; another outstanding number is a waltz...
Shortly before she left Germany, she received a visit from two Hitler Youths, ardent Nazis of the year before. They said they wanted to ski over into Czechoslovakia. Pumped for their reason, 16-year-old Otto said: "I'll now quote Herr Abraham Lincoln: 'You can fool all the people some of the time,' " etc. Later that day Otto smashed the teeth of another Hitler Youth he caught baiting an old Jewish woman, got a warm handshake from the Nazi cop who rushed him to a quiet side street, told him to scram...
...GREEN FOOL-Patrick Kavanagh -Harper...
...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...