Word: jackassical
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When he died he left instructions to be buried near a famed Death Valley pioneer, with this epitaph: "Here Lies Shorty Harris, A Single Blanket Jackass Prospector." The Author- Unlike most authors of Western stories, Dane Coolidge knows the region he has written of in such romances as Snake Bit Jones, Rawhide Johnny, Gun Smoke, some 30 other books. Born in Natick, Mass, in 1873, he was taken to California in 1877, entered Stanford at the age of 21, with a job as field collector working on mammals and reptiles. Since then he has collected live animals...
...message of hate has been chiefly depicted by such second-string draughtsmen as King Features' James G. ("Little Jimmy") Swinnerton and the New York American's Dorman H. Smith. Both specialize in a moronic, capped-&-gowned Brain Truster. Cartoonist Swinnerton's is distinguished by jackass ears...
Wisecracks have played an important role in the career of New Hampshire's George Higgins Moses. The day in 1929 he called his Progressive Republican Senate colleagues "sons of the wild jackass," he made political enmities that have yet to cool. Last June, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Roy Roberts remarked that a fine Democratic song would be "Landon-Bridges Falling Down...
...Republican George H. Moses, onetime New Hampshire Senator, tartly remarked that the country was "going to hell in a hack," that the "sons of the wild jackass are multiplying like jack-rabbits," that "this country cannot continue to exist half Roosevelt, half Frankfurter...
...apartment in Shanghai is the penthouse in Smart Girl; the Stock Exchange bar. the New York cafe.) Smart Girl was previewed six times before its official Hollywood unveiling in an effort to decide whether Pinky Tomlin ought to sing or not. Finally his song was removed but his jackass laughter and owlish solemnity as the milliner's Dummkopf of a son were left in with happy results. He is in real life an Oklahoma crooner who arrived in Hollywood five months ago with $100 in his pocket, half of which he gave to the orchestra leader in the Biltmore...