Word: asses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...housekeeper and falls into the arms of his old sweetheart from the States. Before he can accomplish this, it is necessary to rid the plot of her unpleasant husband. The riddance is ably assisted by a jealous native and a school of sharks. Stirred into this is a silly ass Englishman, a drunken sailor, a governor general, a fervent thunderstorm and some native dancing. George Gaul is conspicuous as the native boy and gives a somewhat monotonous portrayal. None of the cast was overladen with ability or clothing, but they all performed very energetically. Aloma is just about bad enough...
Knock Docility of Ass...
...went back to Hongkong, confronted Townsend, told him, one af- ternoon, what an ass she thought he was. He responded by kissing her. Her bones turned to water. "It's no use," she thought afterwards, "I am a slut...
...English classicists, and Dr. Edward Capps of Princeton. The translations are all beautifully done and printed with the page of the original at the left, balanced by the English version at the right. They are not all new translations. Some are themselves classics, as, for example, Apuleius' Golden Ass in the version which William Adlington made in 1566. No uniform edition of the classics has ever before been attempted on such a scale. The annual loss, a large one, is borne by Mr. Loeb. He, when he had retired from active business to devote himself to literary and archaeological...
...manner of the best crabs by Mr. Robert McWade. Miss Blyth Daly, as Geraldine Marsh, the orphaned friend of the family turned housekeeper, entirely satisfactory as the Pollyanna minority, and shows a distinct appreciation of the part. Mr. Albert G. Andrews, as the Ray, Philip Dow, makes an ass of the person in the most approved fashion...