Word: jackassical
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...lame duck was ever better fitted for such a job. Mr. Moses knows news. It was to gratify reporter friends anxious for a Monday morning headline that he dubbed his irreconcilable western colleagues "The Sons of the Wild Jackass." For this mot and the animosities behind it, he was not re-elected to, although he retained, his Presidency pro tem of the Senate throughout the 72nd Congress. His friends believe that his sharp tongue was what really lost him his Senate seat...
Other Hearst cartoonists hammering away at familiar Hearst themes include Walter Joseph Enright, portrayer of the "Jackass Rabbit Congressman" who refused to accept Mr. Hearst's sales tax; Winsor McCay, nightmare man; and Nelson Harding, a Pulitzer Prize-winner when on the Brooklyn Eagle...
Ripley was delighted with Sydney Harbour. He was amazed to know that the Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the biggest of its kind in the World. He was astonished when he saw the Laughing Jackass and found not a beast, but a bird that laughed at its own jokes...
...Wilson called him to serve on the first U. S. Tariff Commission. Incorrigibly internationalistic, he stayed there until 1928. Colorado's Democrats in 1930 sent him to the Senate where he found himself the last of the Wilsonians. A maverick, he naturally strayed with the Sons of the Wild Jackass. Once the late "Uncle Joe" Cannon asked Mr. Costigan what were his politics...
...Voted (54-to-17) to lay aside the election of a President pro tempore after 25 fruitless ballots, thus leaving New Hampshire's Moses in that office, much to the chagrin of Republican Insurgents whom he called "Sons of the Wild Jackass...