Word: asses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choking in the fumes of your hypocrisy sooner or later-for Adolf Hitler is the man of the year, if there be any such, and I wish to go on record now as predicting that you gutless hypocrites will pass him over again in favor of some such ass as Churchill-or Rusefelt even, if he is successful by the year-end in pushing us into this...
With these thoughts in mind. I wish you could clear up this matter, at least as far as my personal standpoint is concerned. Michael J. de Sherhinin. Ass't Managing Editor of The Dartmouth
...Rome, Newscaster Mario Appelius was the first of his profession to talk back to a radio heckler. His program was interrupted by a voice exclaiming: "You are an Italian ass." Signor Appelius riposted: "That's better than being a British citizen." This led to an impromptu exchange of high-school wit. Later in the week, when the heckler's voice was faint, Signor Appelius tried for the large effect by crying: "Speak louder, ghost! No ghost will save England...
...preposterous part. As for Lana Turner, fully clad for a change, and the rest of the cast (Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, etc.), they are as wooden as their roles. Hyde, heckling Jekyll in the mirror, probably sums it all up best. Says he: "How did such a dull, pompous ass like you ever think of anything as charming as this...
Many of us Texans despise Colonel Lindbergh for the ass he has made of himself in his relationships to the American public during the last decade. But we still are realists and as such must concede that the unpopular Colonel is right in most of his conclusions...