Word: asses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loud Premier Mitchell Frederick ("Mitch") Hepburn barged ebulliently into a St. Thomas filling station and, finding no operator, went to work on the gas pump himself. "Hey, you can't do that," yelled the attendant, appearing at last. "It's against the law!" "The law is an ass-I'll have it changed," grinned Farmer Mitch...
Readers who do not yet agree with Dickens' Mr. Bumble that "the law is a ass, a idiot" can turn to The Strangest Cases on Record by Lawyer John Allison Duncan of Cleveland. His book is a random docket of legal madness. Hear...
...history has been deliberately distorted or deliberately left unwritten, he has existed for some years in a high state of historical dudgeon. The margins of his history books (he owns the largest private Revolutionary War library in the U. S.) crackle with expletive and epithet: "What an ass!"; "Nuts!"; "The louse judgment of a literary louse!"; "Beef from a moose...
...blocks, rice bowls hit with chopsticks, temple gongs, pipe lengths, secondhand brake drums, baby rattles, maracas, wind glass, thunder sheets, washboards, cowbells, "fin-gersnaps & footstomps," flower pots, güiro, sirens (for the use of which he had to get police permission), claves, police whistles, the jawbone of an ass...
With this childish underworld the teachers are unable to cope. The headmaster is enslaved to "the good of the school." Old Harbon, Coach Brittling and Mr. Feetling represent those faculty constants, the living corpse, the bullnecked coward, the moderately well-meaning ass...