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Heehaw. In London, Santiago Lopez searched high & low for the jawbone of an ass which he had lost in a subway, explained that he cherished it not for killing Philistines, but for making "delightful noises" in his swing band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...ass, a idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Closing the Portal | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Detroit last week, Federal Judge Frank A. Picard did his best to make the law look less like "a ass." He threw clear out of court the famed Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. case for portal-to-portal pay. If the Supreme Court-to which the case is quickly headed-should sustain him, there would be lifted from industry the threat of $5 billion in back-pay claims filed by scores of unions. If it should reverse him, the law would look more like "a ass" than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Closing the Portal | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Anthony, now 56, makes a living writing a mystery thriller every other week for Hearst Sunday supplements, and contributing to newsstand joke magazines. Of his autobiography he says: "I suppose I made an ass of myself. But if you have to be an ass, you might as well be an honest ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Them Were the Days | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Grand Inquisitor. James Boswell was a drunkard, a tomcat, a toady, a conceited ass and at times a consummate nuisance; but he produced almost as great a book as Gibbon's, and thanks to his inveterate good nature and high spirits, probably had more real friends. Some of his biographers have been unable to get past Boswell's faults and a few have tried to argue them away, but Mr. Quennell has done the pudgy Scot exact justice. He has seen-but also seen past-the clown who strutted about the Shakespeare Jubilee in Corsican fancy dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Age of Reason | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

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