Word: asses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frequent, skillful references to Baker, Oregon, "a place in America," where he has two sisters, Hetty and Jane, "good girls"). Apprehended, the Englishman is bound by the wrists, his back is used as an etching-plate, upon which Mr. Crispin cuts with a surgical scalpel the likeness of an ass. The American is subjected to mental torture. But just as Mr. Crispin, drawing on a surgeon's blouse, is about to consummate his fiendish plans for the Englishman, the American and the girl, the three dumb Japs, squealing laughter from tongueless mouths, have their own revenge. This...
...Pods. Asses, even the mock-ass Bottom of .4 Midsummer Night's Dream. enjoy eating peas, pods and all. Other live stock also find them delectable. Humans like the green seeds, but not the pods. Yet the pods contain valuable sugar and proteins. How to make them humanly palatable is a job which the U. S. Department of Agriculture's bureau of chemistry has set for itself...
...boss who is a regular subscriber. My secretarial position gives me an indisputable right to read his copies before he does. Of course, sometimes he seems not to grasp the truth of this technicality and becomes somewhat "peeved," most emphatically stating that your "mail clerk is an ass." My personal opinion is that your mail clerk is O. K. I receive my boss's copies of TIME within a reasonable time and if my boss gets his copy always one week late, it is due absolutely to his inability to understand my rights as his secretary...
...kept out of the city. But though notice has been served of dismissal, yet, for some months the world may still hope to be entertained by the antics and extravagances of the champion buffoon whose ambition, like that of Dogberry, seems to be 'Write me down an ass...
Significance. Thus in a series of excessively droning monologues Lowell Schmaltz gives himself away to inconceivably long-suffering audiences as a self-satisfied ass thriving in a smug over-convenient America, 1928 model. Lively audiences yawn, groan, escape him, but posterity, trapped by the author's undeniable virtuosity in the spoken word, will listen and believe that the mechanistic ass was typical of the age. And posterity may not detect this flaw: "typical" American butter-and-eggers idolized in Lindbergh all the heroism which their own ready-to-wear existence lacked, and would always prefer a Lindbergh...