Word: jackassical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortify his health, he started on a walking tour through Scotland. There the mist wetted him, the food was bad, he met "a mahogany-faced old jackass who knew Burns." While he was tramping 30 miles a day in drenched clothes for the sake of his throat, certain sharp dolts in Edinburgh published a review of his poem Endynrion, called it "Cockney Poetry," advised him to go back "to plasters, pills and ointment boxes," prophesied that his bookseller would not a second time "venture £50 on anything he might write." These reviews were waiting for him when he returned...
...Brooklyn Institute Museum, taxidermist, who will mount groups of the island wild life; W. Kenneth Cuyler and Allen L. Moses, collectors, who will prepare the skins. Mr. Simmons himself will devote much time to the many rare and tropical birds - the sheerwater, gannet, booby, king and emperor penguins, jackass, manofwar, albatross, etc. Experienced navigators and sailors, all college men with scientific training, make up the crew. There is an engineer for topo graphical work, an electrician for ra dio, a photographer, a motion picture...
Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire toured through twelve states, returned to Washington, set forth his conclusions: That the Volstead Act is "a jackass statute. Any law that declares buttermilk to be an alcoholic beverage, of necessity is a jackass statute." That the country and Congress would vote Dry-except for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. That "Governor Pinchot [page 5] has endeared himself to the hardware trade with his talk of padlocks [for saloon doors]. I predict there will be a boom in that commodity in the Keystone State." Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama is the only...
...stuff is the hope of the country. Here is the opportunity. There are none to take it. We ask no sentimental orgy over having lived together with another for a time. We ask merely that each shall be made to realize that the other is neither a simpleton, a jackass, nor a pig. For is it not true that when these students are gone without these walls they will, the most of them, be in more constant necessity of knowing others than their own kind...