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...neatest dismissal of the keynote speech at the Democrat Convention was made from the pulpit by a Jacksonville minister, who said: "Mr. Clement has slain the Republican Party with the jawbone of an ass...
...Golden Ass of Apuleius, a stranger in a Greek town, weaving his way home late at night from a party, thinks himself attacked on his doorstep .by three footpads, and stabs them all. The next morning, badly hung over, he is dragged before the townspeople and accused of murder by the wailing widows and orphans of the dead. While the audience screams for his head, the terrified stranger is forced to draw back the blanket covering the corpses-and discovers that his "victims" were nothing more than three inflated wineskins that had been tied to his doorpost. Everyone...
...Miserables, as well as other novels. By night he seduced the flower of Guernsey's chambermaids and, in table-tapping seances, had long discussions with "Moliere, Shakespeare, Anacreon, Dante, Racine, Marat, Charlotte Corday, Latude, Mahomet, Jesus Christ, Plato, Isaiah . . . the Dove of the Ark, Balaam's Ass." All these apparitions agreed that Hugo was acting for the best; many spoke in excellent Hugo-istic verse. Lord Byron, however, insisted on speaking English...
...modern half of the program featured the first performance of Karl Kohn's A Latin Fable, for male chorus and piano four-hands. The fable concerns the ass who put on a lion's skin, but Kohn set it rather didactically, giving humor no place. His music was astringent and powerful, and was probably more rewarding to listen to than to sing...
...term, only 22 Ifs pupils showed up. The rest were out on a parent-instigated strike. Petitions were sent to the District Inspector of Education in Caen and even to the Ministry in Paris. Farmers and aproned mothers paraded the streets with placards denouncing the headmaster as a "solid ass...