Word: asses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best assistant, the Germans' worst flyer. "Tally ho!" they yelled when they spotted him. "Here comes Müller's bunch!" As they went after the Messerschmitts, they could hear the Nazi commander bellowing angry curses over the inter-plane radio: "Müller, verdammter Esel! [damn ass!]. . . . Müller Menschenskind! [man alive!]. . . . Müller, Sie Trottel! [you dope...
...prodigy itself looks more like a horse than a mule. Recording cases of fertile mules, the U.S. Department of Agriculture brooks no superficiality, carries the question back to basic grounds. It cautions that mules themselves are a curiosity-"in the sense that the crossing of the horse and the ass is not one of nature's ideas...
Cruelty. In Holland, a collector of potato peels named his ass Benno - the Dutch for Benito. A Nazi paper demanded action by the S.P.C.A...
...only when dealing with rodents. His deer, like his human characters, are flat, two-dimensional color patterns, animated but lifeless. And his cannel but highly emotional thunderstorms are worse still; they are Disney trying to do what the Lord never intended he should; they are Moon Mullins making an ass of himself on the Flash Gordon page...
...classes had begun to scorn. In Boston the one-eyed crippled tanner, William Billings, was even bolder. He got the cello into church, and the much more needed pitch pipe. Against the ancient unison of the psalms he offered "fuges." For greater dissonance he recommended the braying of an ass, the filing of a saw, the squealing of a hog "who is extremely weak," the "cracking" of a crow, the howling of a dog, the squalling of a cat, "and what would grace the concert yet more, would be the rubbing of a wet finger upon the window glass...