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...boss who is a regular subscriber. My secretarial position gives me an indisputable right to read his copies before he does. Of course, sometimes he seems not to grasp the truth of this technicality and becomes somewhat "peeved," most emphatically stating that your "mail clerk is an ass." My personal opinion is that your mail clerk is O. K. I receive my boss's copies of TIME within a reasonable time and if my boss gets his copy always one week late, it is due absolutely to his inability to understand my rights as his secretary...
...kept out of the city. But though notice has been served of dismissal, yet, for some months the world may still hope to be entertained by the antics and extravagances of the champion buffoon whose ambition, like that of Dogberry, seems to be 'Write me down an ass...
Significance. Thus in a series of excessively droning monologues Lowell Schmaltz gives himself away to inconceivably long-suffering audiences as a self-satisfied ass thriving in a smug over-convenient America, 1928 model. Lively audiences yawn, groan, escape him, but posterity, trapped by the author's undeniable virtuosity in the spoken word, will listen and believe that the mechanistic ass was typical of the age. And posterity may not detect this flaw: "typical" American butter-and-eggers idolized in Lindbergh all the heroism which their own ready-to-wear existence lacked, and would always prefer a Lindbergh...
...Ass No. 3 is he who is convinced that Professor Rollins does not understand the spirit and "essence" of poetry. When one has glanced through several of the volumes Professor Rollins had edited, this statement appears even more absurd and ridiculous than the later statement about "novels, chronology, and similar bricks and mortar of literature". Neither of these statements is any more worthy of serious comment than the "skillibooch . . . gmmk" of a baby-or the braying of an ass. Such noises speak for themselves-certain vibrations have issued forth from a cavity into the surrounding atmosphere causing a meaningless noise...
...Three asses have brayed, and what have they accomplished? Nothing, except that smug feeling of satisfaction that every ass gets when he feels he has uttered something of surpassing sagacity; which feeling he communicates to the world by a certain lazy wagging of his aural appendages...