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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Willard G. McGraw, Jr.: Winthrop; House Comm., Sec.; Ass't House Ath. Sec.; House football and baseball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1957 Permanent Class Committee Candidates | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

William C. Brady, II: Pres. New Cons. Club; HSC Academic Freedom Comm., Chair.; Newman Quarterly, Ass't Ed.; Pol. Forum, Chair.; PBH Social Service Comm., Ass't Chair.; Interhouse Debate Council; Club Hispanico, Pres...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1957 Permanent Class Committee Candidates | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...they did their celebrated book for Carmen) on a work by Prosper Mérimée.* As a pretty street singer who ditches her poor but honest boy friend (Baritone Theodor Uppman) for a viceroy of Peru, Soprano Patrice Munsel does some discreet bumps and grinds, rides an ass, and prettily sings the operetta's best-known tune, a farewell aria to her sweetheart-one of those lovely, almost-convincing pieces of lyricism that Offenbach turned out along with his musical ironies. In addition to the ass ridden by Soprano Munsel-a beast named Amos, rented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Romp at the Met | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...neatest dismissal of the keynote speech at the Democrat Convention was made from the pulpit by a Jacksonville minister, who said: "Mr. Clement has slain the Republican Party with the jawbone of an ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...Golden Ass of Apuleius, a stranger in a Greek town, weaving his way home late at night from a party, thinks himself attacked on his doorstep .by three footpads, and stabs them all. The next morning, badly hung over, he is dragged before the townspeople and accused of murder by the wailing widows and orphans of the dead. While the audience screams for his head, the terrified stranger is forced to draw back the blanket covering the corpses-and discovers that his "victims" were nothing more than three inflated wineskins that had been tied to his doorpost. Everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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