Word: fool
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...morally? There are sacred secrets belonging to the sick which 18 could not and ought not to be able to understand-and there are secrets, the very reverse of sacred, the secrets of vice, about Patients which their Nurse must know if she is not to be made a fool of; and which one shrinks from any young woman, gentle or simple, knowing. (Alas! the 'simple' know them far too soon...
...person has to be unnormal to get into this kind of business," concluded Cinemactress Lauren ("The Look") Bacall. "In the first place, you have to be slightly demented to make a fool of yourself in front of ... a whole crew of people who don't care a bit about what you are doing . . . Also you have to be a little nuts to get up at 6 o'clock every morning to go to work...
...asks questions may not get all the answers. But the man who refuses to ask questions only is deluding himself that he has all the answers. And the classic definition of a fool has always been, "a man who knows not that he knows...
Although no one has pulled any "live" stunts so far, the campaign still has a day to go. Voting is tomorrow. The quiet doesn't fool one Union porter, however. "These freshmen are smarter than most," he warned. "They'll wait for the right time, then, watch...
...Edmonton last week, a reporter asked a World War II officer, now a prosperous father of three children, what he planned to do if the Korean crisis should develop into World War III. Said he: "I guess I'd be a damn fool again and join up." Across the Dominion this was a typical attitude. But like most Americans, most Canadians galloped off in all directions when they talked about ways to resolve the crisis...