Word: aught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aristpphanic clownings of those amusing tumblers, Fortunello and Cirillino? Or Bird Millman, the circus star who does incredible things? How many intellectuals who lament the passing of the pungent Yankee wit have thought of Will Rogers of the Follies as anything but a mountebank? Or Savoy and Brennan as aught but purveyors of laughter to the Babbittry...
...humans were mentally favored beyond their contemporaries, and preached ideas realized only much later; whatever of folly was proposed by them lost its bearing and fell away, but whatever of good was championed by them has survived and has pushed man on in his development. If these Reds have aught to say let them speak, for if there is substance in their views, it will out anyway, but if their leaders are false prophets their curses will be transformed into blessings and their idle words will fall as rain from the duck's back and prove as barren...