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...immediately. Julika is a beauty, with hair "red, like rosehip jam," and the authorities encourage Sam to take long walks with her and reminisce about "their" married life. Since Julika is just Sam's type, he soon finds himself making love to her-and thinking what an ass Stiller was to leave her for another woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who's Who | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Your account underlines the fact that no one excels the English in producing a pompous ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1958 | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...Miss Vanderbilt is descended...through a long line of titled cuckolds and shameless pimps, and now stands on the ragged edge of poverty, bartering to parvenus for bread an empty dukedom bought with a female relative's dishonor." Brann scoffed at James Whitcomb Riley, "the poetical ass with the three-story name," railed at a clergyman-critic as a "monstrous bag of fetid wind," adding: "The man who can find intellectual food in [his] sermons could acquire a case of delirium tremens by drinking the froth out of a pop bottle." The son of a Presbyterian minister, he rang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Iconoclast | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...ioiA twin-jet McDonnell Voodoo to full throttle and full afterburner, broke the world's official aerial speed record. Previous record, flown in March 1956 by a British Fairey Delta: ,132 m.p.h. Drew's official time, an average of one pass into the wind and one ass with it: 1,207.6 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vhoosh | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...wouldn't listen and so he was arrested again." Sinclair fought John D. Rockefeller Jr. by picketing his Wall Street offices in crape. He bugled for milk, vegetarianism, Prohibition. Sacco and Vanzetti. Yet even a New York Socialist leader said: "Sinclair is an ass." And he never really wrote very well. After a rejected manuscript, according to one anecdote, Mary said sadly: "Why can't you seem to use the right words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uppie's Goddess | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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