Word: butts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College was only too willing to let Uncle Sam utilize its buildings, in the expectation of assisting in the successful prosecution of the war, but it is sorry that this city has been the butt of governmental inefficiency. Doubtless the school has done much good, but we are as glad to see the blue horde passing into oblivion, as they...
...there is little hope that after the war there will be less need of military preparedness. Whatever is the outcome of the present conflict, it will leave for many years to come a vast accumulation of hatred, jealousy and mutual fear among all European nations. Germany, as the main butt of all these fears and hatreds, will agree to a reduc- tion of armament only if she receives adequate pledges that disarmament will not be used as a weapon to cripple her permanently...
...sections of the jointed cleaning rods and two small arm oilers, which are placed in a pocket or well in the butt of the piece are missing; these should be returned to the Armorer without further delay as they must be accounted for on return of ordnance property...
...Fourflushers," by C. Kinkhead sC., is in a far different mood. A hackneyed domestic situation, hackneyed in plays at least, is made the butt of pervasive, witty satire. Butler, husband, wife, and false friend, all have the tricks of their trades at their finger tips, and ply them with most humerous results...
...author, Thomas Shadwell, was a man of position in the London of the Stuarts. He was a contemporary and opponent of Dryden, who made him the butt of his satire "MacFlecknoe" or "The Satire upon the True-Blue-Protestant Poet," an epithet which the readers of Shadwell's plays will consider inappropriate. Shadwell's tendency is to copy old models. "Bury Fair" is adapted from Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair" and from Moliere's "Les Precieuses Ridicules." The poet draws from these comedies a satire on the people of his own time and the English court life...