Word: asses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declared the New York Herald Tribune: "One cause [of a Hoover trend] is, of course. Garner. Vice presidential meat proved too strong for this Texas Caesar. He made about as complete an ass of himself as an experienced statesman well could...
...This edition of the Herald will be up to its ordinary fine condition, as it is almost as if our ass't Editor is still with us helping with the paper. The following articles . . . were written by Billy Moore and left all ready to be published." One of the articles...
...November 24, 1924, a common mule on the farm of W. J. Kilian of Weenen, Natal, gave birth to a male foal. . . . The mule in question ... is a typical mule in every way and has a considerable preponderance of the characteristics of the ass. . . . The foal grew rapidly and is now a reliable riding horse, practically indistinguishable from a pure horse...
Plunging in Hell ass-uppermost...
...butt of Speaker Reed's observation was not Georgia's Watson but the late Congressman John Alfred Pickler of South Dakota. Not in the House but privately outside, Speaker Reed, habitually polite of speech, said: "I have read and heard much of the Wild Ass's Colt of the Desert, but I never had any clear conception of what manner of animal it really was till I saw Pickler in action...