Word: asses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goes a long way toward exploding this commercialized tradition, shows that the Swiss, like other people, are human, passionate, beleaguered by all the human vices and virtues. A humane melodrama. Via Mala is written on the socially dangerous and apparently un-Swiss-like theme that the law is an ass, and goes best in blinkers...
...good taste.' " "I have not found," he explains, "the U. S. a standardized mortuary and consequently have no sympathy with that school of detractors whose experience has been limited to first class hotels and the paved highways. At the same time I am no sentimentalist. I know an ass and the dust of his kicking when I come across it. But I have come across enough of it to be able to discover interesting qualities therein...
...have been called a raving Red, an insipid idiot, and an awful ass of late-many times- all because of my publicly avowed intention of voting for Upton Sinclair...
...Judge Albion W. Tourgee, publisher of the New York Continent ... is a presumptuous ass." ¶ "Mr. Edward T. Flynn, managing editor of the Herald, will probably enjoy a good vacation. . . . Lily Langtry's attentions to the handsome Mr. Flynn continue to be as marked as ever." ¶ "Mr. James Gordon Bennett . . . goes through life having 'as good a time as he can, according to his own ideas. . . . There are worse men in every dozen we meet...
...task to rebuild and reconstruct not blinded by crass materialism, but guided by courage, by high idealism and by a just sense of proportion," said Ass' E. Phillips, Jr. '34 of the Class Oration at Sanders Theatre yesterday morning. He went on to point out that the changes of the last four years had made a "world that does not want us, a world that is over-crowded and over-producing...