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"April fool" Quotes from Famous Books

... the playlet will fail. For instance, one playlet was ruined because right on top of the big, absorbing climax two of the characters who were then off stage stuck their heads in at the door and shouted at the hero of the tense situation, "April Fool." ...

— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page

... For an April Fool's Day gathering, ask each guest to come prepared to do some sleight of hand trick. When all are assembled, each one in turn performs his trick. A vote is taken for the most clever and a prize ...

— Games for Everybody • May C. Hofmann

... by way of breakfast for inward digestion, and there was an irony in the meal which its uniqueness did not help to make palatable. Absent-minded people still went shopping for luxuries gone but not forgotten; to provoke a premature "April fool" from the startled grocer, who was powerless to make real the chimeras that haunted the jungles of the shoppers' imaginations. Even practical (new) women would sometimes think of Bovril, and rush off to buy it all up, ...

— The Siege of Kimberley • T. Phelan

... April fool, go to school, Sit on a two-legged stool. Too wise you are, too wise you be; You are not too wise ...

— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes

... Al yesterday was April Fool and you ought to seen what I pulled on 1 of the boys Johnny Alcock and it was a screen and some of the boys is still laughing over it yet but he is I of the kind that he can't see a joke at their own ...

— The Real Dope • Ring Lardner