Word: asses
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...lack of character," imploring him to make up his mind about anything. "If it turns out to be wrong, all the more reason for sticking to it." She conceives of her husband heroically: "If he rides into office on horseback like Don Quixote, he will ride out on an ass like Sancho Panza." She leaves no doubt in his mind: "I loved you out of pity like--Desdemona loved Othello." And when the Governor's secretary forgets the Governor and the tenth commandment, and takes her hand, Josefina cries: "I'm alone, all alone in the world. I have...
...gentleman gambler and a barbaric king, was quite at his best last night as a bishop of the Anglican Church. Until recently, the dramatic tradition of the English stage has tacitly and unalterably ordained that a clergyman of that religious body should invariably be a pompous and platitudinous ass. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Faversham, being men of the world and not mere dramatists, know better; and the gentle, witty, tolerant prelate of Mr. Shaw's fancy and Mr. Faversham's creation is, or should be, one of the really great figures of our contemporary drama. The actor's conception...
...will suffer from the same fatal defect. The scholar, the athlete, and the litterateur are all members of the new Council; but where, in the parlance of the newspapers, do the "common people" come in? Here is X, an able fellow, who is considered too much an ass to make the CRIMSON; and there is Y, too light for an "H," too prosaic for the Monthly, and too meagre in actual attainment for the Phi Beta Kappa. They are men of ideas, and (which is quite as important) leisure As graduates, X may be President of the United States...
...revised game, as the actual phrasing of the rules has not been attempted, and the question of keeping the forward, pass, which is the crux of the whole situation, has not been settled at all. The rules which have been laid down so far, however, will doubtless make the ass play less useful and a great deal less dangerous; and if the proposed prohibition of the diving tackle can be so framed as to make it practical, another danger will have been eliminated. It is generally recognized that the mass play and the diving tackle have been responsible...
...Conformer" in the third paper of Varied Outlooks by A. Davis 1L., in his self-sufficiency and in his arrogance of difference from ordinary human beings, is only less deformed than the unfortunate youth in "The Reckoning," by C. W. Wickersham 1L., who, having made an ass of himself generally, took "a queer shaped object" from his table drawer and "looked steadily down into the black muzzle" as the memorial clock "counted slowly, Ding, Dong--one, two, three, four, five." Why five rather than six, one wonders...