Word: jackassical
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...Boden, President of the American Library Association, quailed before the mayoral authority, fearing for his $11,000 per annum job. But citizens forestalled by injunction a public burning of the books Mr. Herrman "suspected." The press ridiculed "Chicago's Dayton" and called Mayor Thompson "clown," "buffoon," "braying jackass." He did not mind. He had other things to think about...
...London, England, Representative Ernest W. Gibson of Ver mont, a schoolmate of Calvin Coolidge at Black River Academy in Ludlow, Vt., told the following story last week: "A jackass found its way one night into a classroom on an upper floor of the academy. The long-eared animal didn't like the classical surroundings and played havoc with the desks, tables and books, and roughed the place up generally, to the great displeasure of the Faculty...
...optimist is a jackass who hopes his ears don't show...
Sirs: I have just had the fun of reading your breezy article under the caption "Atavism" (TIME, Jan. 17). As a Western Jackrabbit to an Eastern Jackass may I not congratulate you? The five columns which you so generously devoted to my little home town, are yellower than Hearst at his best. As a matter of fact, you have out-Bonsfilsed Bonsfils-and that is a mighty hard thing to do-in old woman's gossip, and in exaggerated and distorted fact. . . . (DR.) JAMES A. COCHRAN...
...decoration did the babbittry of Graz become aware of what metal it was composed. Then pandemonium broke loose at "this tinsel insult to Graz!" Leaping to his feet, the Herr Professor Doktor Guertler, former Minister of Finance, loyal citizen of Graz, roundly scored and cursed President Hainisch as a "jackass." While local patriots cheered him to the echo, he recited a noted expurgated verse from Goethe's "Knight with Mailed Fist," which is usually regarded as a model of obscene revilement...