Word: asses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just said.' And they all fell flat on their faces ... He really had made me laugh very, very much. I think he had an enormous humor that he sort of hid from people. In fact, he said to me, 'I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President. And I think I'll go along with them...
...Danube ran merrily through the first of the week's color shows. In Robert Sherwood's vintage (1951) Reunion in Vienna on NBC, Greer Garson was beautiful enough and Actor Robert Flemyng nearly skilled enough to bring the play to life, but Brian Aherne's silly-ass Archduke made some viewers cease to care whether school kept...
...result, Mendelssohn is more the hero of the evening than Shakespeare; Moira Shearer's dancing far surpasses any actor's speech; the ass's head that Bottom wears is more entertaining than Stanley Holloway's Bottom. Only Robert Helpmann as Oberon can render Shakespeare's diction as well as dance, can become something fleet, mischievous, magical-and believably Shakespearean...
...gate guarded. Said he earnestly: "I intend to intensify my campaign ... I give them credit for being as sincere as I am. When public sentiment has decided the issue, I am ready to shut up . . .But there are times when Samson has to take the jawbone of an ass and whip a pack of Philistines...
AMERICAN NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S ASS'N. DENVER