Word: jackasses
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...countless drawbacks of being in Congress is that I am compelled to receive impertinent letters from a jackass like you, in which you say I promised to have the Sierra Madre Mountains reforested and that I've been in Congress two months and haven't done...
...Daniels is a consummate jackass." So cried Monsignor Hugh L. Lamb, Chancellor of the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, in a speech about U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels. "Daniels easily succumbed to the flattery of Plutarco Calles, the power in Mexico, who is known as the God-hater. He was wined and dined and private trains were placed at his disposal. . . . He has publicly expressed approval of the Socialistic and Communistic educational program...
...Washington and make it. One cartoonist portrayed the General with swelling bosom standing before the huge and hungry lion of Public Opinion while a placard announced "General Johnson will positively put his head in the Lion's mouth." Another had the General standing back to back with a jackass ("Great American Kicker"), and urging "Go on kick, I dare ya to!" A third had the embattled General surrounded with snowballs, brickbats and dead cats, belligerently challenging all comers: "Come on! Let's see y'u throw something...
Back in the U. S. after the War both Democrats and Republicans elected him to the 66th Congress. Then he began to kick up his heels in earnest. He adhered to no party, ran with Democrats, Republicans, Sons of the Wild Jackass, Farmer Laborites, at will. On "Calendar Wednesdays," when his colleagues left the clerk of the House to drone away hundreds of petty little bills to keep the folks back home happy, LaGuardia was usually pres-ent to object to the more flagrant bits of logrolling. He made Prohibitionist William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw's life a burden...
...sound of a jackass braying spreads Dionysiac frenzy through a whole community...