Word: butts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life of the Plebe, for instance, has been famed in song and story as the epitome of refined torture. He must serve as the butt of every upperclassman's ill-temper, quirks of humor, or plain cussedness, and he must take everything that is thrown at him without a murmur, for he is lower than the lowest galley-slave in the eyes of his more advanced brothers-in-arms. And these latter companions, having been Plebes once themselves, are not apt to let him forget how low this...
...Most Alia Names Fittin Just Wonn Line, Even Konstadin Anagnostopoulos; Butt 'Jno' Ish Noe More-Alway 'John...
...other lands the German Jews tend to look upon themselves as the aristocrats of Jewry (although they give precedence to the Sephardic families from Spain and Portugal). In Palestine the recent German aliyah is looked down upon and made the butt of the same kind of joke that German Jews in the U.S. used to hurl at their Russian brethren...
Early in the Freshman year, nearly all students discover that they are intended to find their own way through four years of college. The indifference of the Freshman adviser is so well known as to have become the butt of popular witticisms. The highly important Freshman year, because of this indifference, is far too often spent in wasted effort--there is nothing to prevent a student from over-specializing or from over-generalizing, or from thinking in terms of an altogether wrong field of concentration...
Chinese Nests. James was often the butt of smart young London intellectuals in the years before World War I. Everything about Henry James made him an easy target for their wit-particularly his resolute love of England in the face of the English stories that were told about him and the jokes that were played...