Word: asses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gentleman gambler and a barbaric king, was quite at his best last night as a bishop of the Anglican Church. Until recently, the dramatic tradition of the English stage has tacitly and unalterably ordained that a clergyman of that religious body should invariably be a pompous and platitudinous ass. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Faversham, being men of the world and not mere dramatists, know better; and the gentle, witty, tolerant prelate of Mr. Shaw's fancy and Mr. Faversham's creation is, or should be, one of the really great figures of our contemporary drama. The actor's conception...
...will suffer from the same fatal defect. The scholar, the athlete, and the litterateur are all members of the new Council; but where, in the parlance of the newspapers, do the "common people" come in? Here is X, an able fellow, who is considered too much an ass to make the CRIMSON; and there is Y, too light for an "H," too prosaic for the Monthly, and too meagre in actual attainment for the Phi Beta Kappa. They are men of ideas, and (which is quite as important) leisure As graduates, X may be President of the United States...
...revised game, as the actual phrasing of the rules has not been attempted, and the question of keeping the forward, pass, which is the crux of the whole situation, has not been settled at all. The rules which have been laid down so far, however, will doubtless make the ass play less useful and a great deal less dangerous; and if the proposed prohibition of the diving tackle can be so framed as to make it practical, another danger will have been eliminated. It is generally recognized that the mass play and the diving tackle have been responsible...