Word: jackassical
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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...
...have received from the publisher, Frank Rosewater, one of the most amusing and instructive books that has for a long time been issued from the press. It is entitled "No More Free Rides on this Jackass, or Protection Forever and Everywhere," contains 160 pages, profusely illustrated with a series of comic drawings that are done by the hand of an artist. Mr. Frank Rosewater, the author, treats the subject of protection through a patchwork of stories that are written in a most playful and easy style, and are full of keen satire. He opens up an entirely new and original...
...collection of vegetables, especially some beets of mammoth size. Phil 5 contained a living crocodile, and was connected with F. A. 2, in which was a gorgeous panorama of Egypt and the Holy Land. Sanskt seems to have been an exhibition of stump-pullers, and Hebr undoubtedly was a jackass race. These are only a small part of the amusements, but the nature of the rest cannot be definitely ascertained...
...Spectator is goody, painfully so. Its philippics against the intoxicating cup are truly Swinburne-like. The Pegasus of the far North is evidently a teetotaller, - possibly his didactic flights and broken-winded canter might go far towards proving him a jackass. One of his most graceful curvets is recorded below...