Word: donkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches ask us to believe: A Dortmund drayman lost an action in a law court. He was very angry, named his two donkeys after his two lawyers, painted their names on the animals' blinders, drove through the streets of Dortmund. The sensitive lawyers sued for defamation of character. The drayman swore that he meant no harm. The Judge asked: "If you had a third donkey, what would you name him?" The drayman retorted: "That's no business of the fourth." Thirty days in jail was the Judge's kick...
Giovanni Martinelli, famed tenor, last week returned to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after having been absent, ill with typhoid, for almost three months. When he, as Canio in Pagliacci, drove on the stage in the prescribed donkey-cart, standees, gallery-devils, box-holders interrupted the orchestra to applaud; in a convenient pause, the musicians themselves laid down their flutes, their fiddles, applauded with the audience; when he finished singing the famed aria Vesti la giubba the ovation was taken up again, lasted for five minutes. Martinelli, bowing and bowing, shed tears of gratitude...
Skinned a Donkey...
...after it was all over, they would pick out their elk, often leaving large numbers on the ground which no one dared to claim. They are so ignorant about it and it was such plain slaughter that a case is known where the people had half skinned a donkey before they discovered...
Cardinal Logue could laugh heartily. Once, examining a group of tradesmen for confirmation, he asked whether it would not be a sin to conceal the defects of a donkey to a prospective purchaser...