Word: assing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unrest in the nation, The facts should at once be released: I demand a precise explanation Of the tint of Badoglio's beast: Was it mustard perhaps-out of pity For the traces of poisonous gas? Or did he ride into the city On a mule-or an ass? Marshal Badoglio rode into the Ethiopian capital on a small dapple-grey. Last week, 15 days after his triumphant entry, Italy's new Viceroy of Ethiopia rode out again in an airplane piloted by his son, who has acted as an aerial chauffeur for his father ever since...
...what you have written your son Marcus you hold letter writing to be one of the arts. Alas, dear one, it is an art we have lost today. Why? Because we are too busy. For example, Ciccro, should I want to communicate with Mussolini and tell him what an ass he is--even as you would tell Caesar--I need not take a reed pen and write on parchment and thence by messenger to Rome; no I need but take up an instrument and can speak to him direct. Does this amaze you? But I assure you, friend, what...
...where I did meet-who hath of late acquired a new machine which doth record voices and he did ask me to come and speak into it, which I did. But Lord! how much it did surprise me, for my voice doth sound more like the braying of an ass which doth need more rope, than what all these years I did presume my eloquence...
...remainder of the Convention's 21 proteges: Abyssinian ibex. Northern hartebeest, wild ass, mountain zebra, whale-headed stork, bald-headed ibis, white-breasted guinea fowl and all elephants with tusks no heavier than five kilograms...
...tempers the wind to the shorn lamb (thought by many to be a Biblical quotation, by a more knowledgeable few the invention of Laurence Sterne, this proverb goes back to the French, 1594). Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off (1640). Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse (1670). Never say die (Dickens, 1837). Silence in the pig-market, and let the old sow have a grunt (1894). Three classes of clergy: Nimrods, ramrods, and fishing-rods...