Word: jackassical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jackass. Disgruntled at their failure to win any tariff victories, Republican troopers took to sticking out their tongues at the enemy, calling them naughty names. First Major-General Reed of Pennsylvania referred to western senators as "worse than Communists." Then Lobbyist Grundy. also of Pennsylvania, called them representatives of "backward commonwealths" (TIME, Nov. 11). Last week came the crowning insult from the lips of swashbuckling General George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire. President Pro Tempore of the Senate...
...said Pianist & Composer Ravel. "In a cocked hat I would look like a jackass...
...make a show of himself as a dramatic critic here. Not only will he disgrace himself but he will disgrace the World . . . and his succeeding Alexander Woollcott will be a joke. He is, at times, rather amiable when writing about musical shows, but, on the whole he is a jackass giving imbecilic reviews of most of the plays he attends...
...When a jackass learns to sing tenor
...Oftedal of Milwaukee be assured that rescued jackass Nobile means no gain to the world, but men of the north will forever honor Roald Amundsen, son of the vikings, who died as he lived-a hero...