Word: fool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither a fool with a frozen smile, Nor a sad old toad in a cask of bile; He can dance with a shoe nail in his heel, And never a sign of his pain reveal...
...skip over the news of the H-bomb in the papers," said a man in London last week, "and then I look at my neighbor and think: 'How can that fool sit there and read how they're going to blow him up and never bat an eye?' " Doc Hicks, proprietor of a barbershop on South Audubon Road, Indianapolis, summed up for his customers: "I don't think the public understands it. That's why they don't talk much about it." The "it" was certainly hard to understand, and so men talked...
...with the modern ones being made across the Channel at Aubusson (TIME. March 8,1948). Among the fine few, Sutherland's gawky Birds were abstract enough to look all right in wool. Stanley Spencer's cabbage-laden Gardener was both earthy and pretty, but The Garden of Fools., a soup-thin parody of medieval tapestry design by Surrealist Cecil Collins, was neither. "The fool," explained Collins brightly, "is the symbol of creative innocence embattled with the modern machine . . . The saint, the artist, the poet and the fool are one; they are the eternal virginity of spirit . . ." It seemed...
...leaflet distributed by the Committee for Constitutional Government, the well-heeled, reactionary Washington lobby backed by New York State Publisher Frank Gannett. In printing what Lincoln hadn't said, nobody had felt the need to print something that he did say. "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time...
...Snead did not let the gift of one stroke fool him. He stalked down the foggy fairways like a man half expecting an ambush. It took two hours to play the first eight holes. Always a deliberate player, Hogan was taking more time than usual between shots, partly to conserve strength and partly to wear on Sam Snead's notably uncertain nervous system. On the eighth hole with the match even, both men pitched to within twelve feet of the pin to putt for birdies...