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Cruelty. In Holland, a collector of potato peels named his ass Benno - the Dutch for Benito. A Nazi paper demanded action by the S.P.C.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 12, 1943 | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...only when dealing with rodents. His deer, like his human characters, are flat, two-dimensional color patterns, animated but lifeless. And his cannel but highly emotional thunderstorms are worse still; they are Disney trying to do what the Lord never intended he should; they are Moon Mullins making an ass of himself on the Flash Gordon page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/23/1942 | See Source »

...classes had begun to scorn. In Boston the one-eyed crippled tanner, William Billings, was even bolder. He got the cello into church, and the much more needed pitch pipe. Against the ancient unison of the psalms he offered "fuges." For greater dissonance he recommended the braying of an ass, the filing of a saw, the squealing of a hog "who is extremely weak," the "cracking" of a crow, the howling of a dog, the squalling of a cat, "and what would grace the concert yet more, would be the rubbing of a wet finger upon the window glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Early Stages | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...another is an ass,--at least, to all intent...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: THE LIVING EXPLORE THE DEAD AT PEABODY | 5/27/1942 | See Source »

...INDIVIDUAL SCORING Player & Col. Games Goals Ass'ts. Pts. Rondeau, Dart. 8 20 20 40 W. Harrison, Dart. 8 19 14 33 Riley, Dart. 6 8 10 18 Stuckley, Prince. 8 8 10 18 LeBoutillier, Yale 8 9 6 15 McGrath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated Dartmouth Sextet Leaves Trail of Records, Take Championship | 3/13/1942 | See Source »

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