Word: butts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singing "There's a long, long trail awinding" at night in dimly blue-lit trains, learning infantry drill and Spanish, shaking down into an argumentative army in which every officer was "comrade." They had their own language: a man "organized himself" a new rifle, a chocolate bar, a butt; the lethal cigarillos finos they were issued were known as "anti-tanks...
Britain's Poet Laureate John Masefield, whose job it is to muse on State occasions for a butt of wine or ?75 a year (he takes the cash), officially recognized a state of war. Poet Masefield, who once said: "The office of Poet Laureate is responsible for much of the world's worst literature," published a poem entitled Some Verses to Some Germans. Excerpts...
...stone, as James Joyce does in the world of the novel, and his work is as difficult to grasp as Joyce's. To the religious person, the ADAM looms large as a distasteful desecration of the scriptures; some people gaze in silent admiration; others use the statue as the butt of obscene vilification...
Adolescence was a period in life when scrapes and worries that now seem minute appeared to be of cataclysmic importance. In case anyone has forgotten this, there is "What a Life" to bring back those memories, fond or otherwise. Jackie Cooper is the butt of all situations that regularly occur in the average high school. Framed into being caught giving a teacher a "hot-seat", into having his name forged on the pawn ticket for the school's band instruments, though guilty of cribbing in an exam, he blunderingly comes out near the top, even to winning the girl, acted...
Onetime newspaperman (for two years Parliamentary correspondent for the Montreal Gazette), Banker MacDonnell is no amateur, no fuddy-duddy. After Munich last year he composed 36 lines of blank verse on Chamberlain. Excerpt: . . . the butt of every neutral gibe; And stupid in the eyes of arrogance. . . . He took a great, intrepid, lonely step, Biding his time amid the arctic night Of calumny and ridicule and fear, With little company...