Word: butts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is Congress? When he and the 530 other Senators and Representatives come back to Washington, the burning questions of Congressional independence and Congressional value will be fresher than ever. In 154 years, Congress has often been the butt. Mark Twain put it savagely: "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Artemus Ward cried: "Congress, you won't do. Go home you mizzerable devils-go home!" But Congress is used to brickbats and other forms of political rudeness native to the U.S. scene. Congress knows that...
...meaning a large number). The viper may then quietly "blast the weed" (smoke). Two or three long puffs usually suffice after a while to produce a light jag. The smoker is then said to be "high" or "floating." When he has smoked a reefer down to a half-inch butt, he carefully conserves it in an empty match box. In this condition it is known, in Mexican, as a chicharra, or in English, as a "roach...
...reeks of incense burned to cover the telltale, bonfire-like odor of burning marijuana. Most tea pads are supplied with a juke box (known in marijuanese as a "piccolo"). Clients who have assembled to "have a pad" may smoke their own reefers. But commonly they blast the goof-butt collectively, passing a single reefer around from mouth to mouth like a pipe of peace. Next morning, enjoying a heavy sensation very much like an alcoholic hangover, they are said to be "down...
...current butt of Washington's quipsters-War Department's Pentagon Building-was the object of more serious criticism last week. Now it seemed that the cost of lighting, air-cooling and escalating it was too high. The Public Buildings Administration tried to needle the Federal Power Commission into doing something...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt grinned back at Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, Vincent Astor and assorted gold braid. The President shed his coat, advised others to do the same. The third play was a well-sustained gag by First Class Private Irving Gaynor Neiman about a barracks butt who was kidded into thinking that Myrna Loy was coming to see him. In Broadway's version the kidders did not expect Myrna Loy to appear-but she did. In Hyde Park's Version, no one expected Eleanor Roosevelt to double for Myrna...