Word: bassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stoutly opposed was the great, bass-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan. While he is inclined to favor all-Jewish union, he regards the present Zionist leadership as weak, inadequate. Also opposed was the revisionist group, which is dissatisfied with the powerful conduct of the Zionist cause...
INFIDELS AND HERETICS, An Agnostic's Anthology-Clarence Darrow & Wallace Rice-Stratford ($3). "Agnostic" in the title is used broadly enough so that all tones from the lightest treble of skepticism to the deepest bass of atheism are to be found in this collection of short thoughts. Some of the contributors, willing or unwilling, are Poets Whitman, Byron, Job, Swinburne, Prosaists Santayana, Nietzsche, Plato, the Huxleys, Clarence S. Darrow. The collection cannot be called exhaustive since so many other "anti-religionaries" are absent-notably Voltaire...
...British schoolboy about Burton-on-Trent and loudly will he answer, "That's where the ale comes from." Ask him what ale and he will cry, "Bass's Ale!" Almost as familiar as the Prince of Wales' three feathers is the pale red triangle of Bass's Pale Ale and Stout, sign manual of the firm of Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton who have brewed the potent, acrid, yellowish brew?which Britons drink in preference to beer?ever since Washington wintered at Valley Forge...
Burton brewers have been potent in politics nearly as long. Ale has won them a family peerage (now held by Nellie Lisa Baillie, Baroness Burton) and a family baronetcy, now held by gruff Sir William Arthur Hamar Bass, Bart., who went to Harrow, joined the army, upheld the honor of the Burton Basses against the Boers in South Africa...
...crack rifle shot. With both bait-and fly-casting tackle he has caught muskrats, beavers, porcupines, coons, gophers, gulls, woodpeckers, quail, loons, bitterns, mud-hens. Because game-fish judge bait principally by sight rather than smell, he has cast an onion and caught a fish. He has caught bass with carrots, parsnips, beets, frankfurters, potatoes, corn-on-cob, string beans, cherries...