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...history has been deliberately distorted or deliberately left unwritten, he has existed for some years in a high state of historical dudgeon. The margins of his history books (he owns the largest private Revolutionary War library in the U. S.) crackle with expletive and epithet: "What an ass!"; "Nuts!"; "The louse judgment of a literary louse!"; "Beef from a moose...
...blocks, rice bowls hit with chopsticks, temple gongs, pipe lengths, secondhand brake drums, baby rattles, maracas, wind glass, thunder sheets, washboards, cowbells, "fin-gersnaps & footstomps," flower pots, güiro, sirens (for the use of which he had to get police permission), claves, police whistles, the jawbone of an ass...
With this childish underworld the teachers are unable to cope. The headmaster is enslaved to "the good of the school." Old Harbon, Coach Brittling and Mr. Feetling represent those faculty constants, the living corpse, the bullnecked coward, the moderately well-meaning ass...
...that it deals with a pretty important problem. Especially important to Linda Darnell--she's the wife--who doesn't think it's such a good idea to be a wife only during the day-time. That's only normal of course, and Ty Power was an ass not to realize it sooner than he did; but anyway the horse-play that develops around the three-quarters mark isn't half...
...making an international ass of yourself, Unity!" she was told at the Bayreuth Music Festival last summer by candid young Cambridge Poet Stanley Richardson, protege of the Archbishop of York. Asinine indeed had been her conduct ever since she let the Führer pick her up originally in a Munich cafe in 1934. "I want everybody to know I am a Jew-hater!" she soon wrote to the Stürmer, the notorious Nazi anti-Semitic organ, "England for the English-out with the Jews! Heil Hitler!" By last summer the Führer was visibly tired...