Word: asses
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...went back to Hongkong, confronted Townsend, told him, one af- ternoon, what an ass she thought he was. He responded by kissing her. Her bones turned to water. "It's no use," she thought afterwards, "I am a slut...
...English classicists, and Dr. Edward Capps of Princeton. The translations are all beautifully done and printed with the page of the original at the left, balanced by the English version at the right. They are not all new translations. Some are themselves classics, as, for example, Apuleius' Golden Ass in the version which William Adlington made in 1566. No uniform edition of the classics has ever before been attempted on such a scale. The annual loss, a large one, is borne by Mr. Loeb. He, when he had retired from active business to devote himself to literary and archaeological...
...manner of the best crabs by Mr. Robert McWade. Miss Blyth Daly, as Geraldine Marsh, the orphaned friend of the family turned housekeeper, entirely satisfactory as the Pollyanna minority, and shows a distinct appreciation of the part. Mr. Albert G. Andrews, as the Ray, Philip Dow, makes an ass of the person in the most approved fashion...
...further stated that this is not only a picture of life at the University, but a criticism of it. Rlley, the inevitable sophisticated character who is always getting off some witty, or otherwise remark, announces, "Everybody nowadays is an ass; stupid, stubborn, uncaring, unheeding--animals--asses." Among the other "asses" are the typical athlete, the disillusioned war veteran with an inferiority complex, and several women, ladies and otherwise, varying from Beacon Street to manicure parlor types...
Winthrop Ames, one of our most selectively judicious producers, surrounded Mr. Arliss with a long and satisfactory company. Even in the raspingly British second act of the silly ass and arch girl sort, the players were usually above the manuscript. On the star's performance adjectives were tossed in an enthusiastic heap. He was furnished with opportunity to love, hate, eat, drink and die. These elemental attributes he interpreted with a gorgeous gusto, a decisive individuality which made the part one of Mr. Arliss's best since the days he did Disraeli...