Word: bassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other cartoonists concurrently represented Mr. Rudyard Kipling as a testy little man pounding a big bass drum with a broken stick; as a nasty little boy making faces at the lady who has just given him a piece of pie; as a nasty little boy embarrassing his parents by vulgar remarks in front of company. One and all were reproving Mr. Kipling for an inept and unmelodious bit of prevarication included in his new book* of stories and verses, published simultaneously last week in England...
...Hampshire Senator George H. Moses, antiworld court and president pro tempore of the Senate, was renominated in the Republican primary by a two-to-one vote over onetime (1911-13) Governor Robert P. Bass, his nearest opponent. The score: Mr. Moses, 33,900; Mr. Bass, 16,200. Robert C. Murchie, Concord attorney, was nominated by the Democrats...
...Corson who rowed a dory across the English Channel in the van of his wife, who chatted with her in grey hours of the early morn ing, who fed her two pints of hot chocolate, four lumps of sugar, six crackers. He heard cheerleader Louis Timson's booming bass notes canter over the waves: "Oh, Millie! Oh, Millie! How you can swim!" He saw his wife almost go under in the backwash of the Amsterdam steamer Ulysses; he saw a gleam ing porpoise turn over, 20 yards from the mother of his two chil dren. But on the sands...
...Davis, no sleepyhead, was out fishing with Native Oscar Otis at 5 the following morning. He caught three bass and a pike- better than any one of the President's previous catches...
...trailer from Native Otis' boat, much to the surprise of the President. At the press conference it was supposed that the President would lift the cloud concerning the species and dimensions of his fish. He did not. Five days later, the President caught singlehanded a six pound bass on a troll line, and five brook trout with trusty bamboo pole and juicy angle worms-rain, high wind, notwithstanding...