Word: asses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mounted on a prancing ass, and with an embroidered velvet chieftain's robe worn like a chasuble over his Italian army uniform, bug-eyed Haile Selassie Gugsa, traitorous son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie, rode in triumph last week into his old capital of Makale. Behind him an Italian officer held high the Italian flag that had been hauled down from the same Ethiopian village in 1896. Behind them both marched a carefully chosen column of Ras Gugsa's own tribesmen, tall fezzed Askaris from Eritrea, and a regiment of Italian Bersaglieri, cock feathers fluttering from their...
...return to my State of Washington and look into the faces of mothers whose boys may be carrying muskets without adopting this legislation. . . . I have a constitutional right to cross the street if there's a knife-fight going on there, but I'm a silly ass if I do it when I've got my own side to walk on. If people haven't enough sense to stay out of war zones, we should keep them...
Resonantly in his wig and gown Counsellor J. P. Eddy stood up in London's High Court last week and intoned: "Thou shalt not covet ... his manservant nor his maidservant nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that...
...your information were true, instead of being a mass of manurish imaginations of someone obviously "nursemaid to a white ass," it would certainly be indecent and ungentlemanly of you to allow its publication in your pages...
Does the onetime Secretary of Agriculture deny that, as TIME stated, "For seven long years His Majesty played the role of British puppet with a certain grace. distracting himself with such harmless amusements as riding around & around the royal gardens at Alexandria on a white ass...