Vulgar words in Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 (Page 1)
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I have held to the opinion heretofore that blood could not be measured by boodle, that the children of the common people were of as much importance in the eye of the law as the progeny of the plutocrat--that the anguish of parents did not depend on the length of the purse; but Justice Van Fleet seems to agree with Kernan's weeping Canuck, that the more siller one has the more deeply he feels the loss of a son.
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His opportunity to make an immortal ass of himself, to earn catasterism and be placed among the stars as an equine udder, thus happened to hap: Kay-See was to have a "Karnival" modeled upon the pinchbeck rake with which Waco worked the gullible country folk once upon a time--when she so far forgot herself as to trade on womanly beauty to make it a bunco-steerer for her stores.
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Halliwell, who is bossee of the whole business, says he sent the telegram at the request of the board of lady managers of the flower parade--in other words, that, at the solicitation of a lot of snobby old females, he made even a greater ass of himself than nature had originally intended.
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The best things in Puck scarce rise to the dignity of Slob Snots' milk-sick drivel in the Gal-Dal, while Texas has a hundred country editors pulling a Washington hand press and building stallion poster, who could write brighter things if they were drunk--or dead.
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In the name of Balaam's she-ass, does this snub-nosed little snipe suppose that we are all hopeless idiots?
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Call Prof. Jevons a jackass, give Ricardo a tremendous rap, have no mercy on John Stuart Mill, make old Adam Smith's bones to rattle, take a terrible fall out of Turgot--then flap your ears and bray until the welkin rings again.
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Much of the noise was made by a lot of tickey-tailed little politicians who have no more religion than a rabbit, but who were trying to open a popular jack-pot with a jimmy.
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And that's about the size of it.
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The old professors are gone, have been supplanted in great part by a lot of priorient little preachers, selected by a board of trustees, half of whom couldn't tell a Greek root from a rutabaga, pons asinorum from Balaam's ass.
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Furthermore, we are actually predicating a probability that the editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean is a reincarnation of Balaam's ass.
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Will the millions of Americans who can barely make a living of it during the busy season, thank God and the gold-buggers for manifold mercies when the fall trade is over and the crops are all in?
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By act of Parliament (28 Henry VIII C. 7) Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Anne, was declared a bastard; that "certain just and lawful impediments" were unknown to the King when the marriage occurred, but had since been officially "confessed by the said Lady Anne."
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He translated Apulius' "Golden Ass."
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I cannot afford to "damn to everlasting fame" every backwoods hypocrite who raises a howl.
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Still I opine that the man who complies with his apparently modest request is one large piebald ass who ought to be saddled, bridled and ridden around the block, then turned loose to do the Nebuchadnezzer act.
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"It is frequently necessary--and here is the sentence that has done so much to damn its writer--for the upholding of the State, to go to work against faith, against Charity, against humanity, against religion; and a new Prince cannot observe all the things for which men are reckoned good."
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Most Southern towns have suffered from their reckless depredations and will hail their excoriation with delight; still it is a wicked waste of nervo-muscular energy--the amateur journalist, like the poor, and the megalophanous jackass, we have ever with us.
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Somebody whom I have never harmed sends me an A. P. A. tract entitled "A Good Catholic," and issued by Tommy Watson, who once tried to run for vice-president on the Middle-of-the-Muck ticket--for the purpose of turning back the reform tide and electing the humble peon of the gold-buggers, high-tariffites and trusts.
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Rockefeller's heroic attempt to suppress the ICONOCLAST by excluding it from his little gate-system railroad; when the senatorial candidacy of Chollie-Boy Culberson becomes a weariness to the spirit, and the Texas Baptist convention, with its stage accessories of snuffles and snot develops into nux vomica, I can turn to Jay Jay's flamboyant cyclopedia of misinformation and observe with ever increasing interest the attempts of ye able editor to diagnose the disease of the body politic and steer it clear of the funeral director.
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Give him a crown as large as that of King Midas, which was designed to hide the ears of an ass.
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Politics in St. Louis is practiced by the pimps and pothouse habitues, just as in other cities.
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I am not of those jackasses that delight in kicking dead lions; I insist that simple justice be done a man while he is in the land of the living--that we should not hound him to the grave with gross misrepresentation then try to make restitution by placing him among the stars.
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how long will Uncle Sam consent to enact the role of a long-eared, pie-bald ass?
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The dancer and the buffoon received the homage and the adoration which in the golden age of Greece under the reign of Pericles only scholars, philosophers and artists received.
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With all due respect to his holy office, Archbishop Cleary is one ass.
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Of course due allowance must be made for the fact that he is a Canuck.
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Still it is something of a shock to hear even a Canadian archbishop branding four-fifths of the people of this world as bastards.
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Was Eve a concubine and Sara a slut?
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I am simply tying a few bow-knots in the ears of an ass.
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The woman is no true wife, but a kept mistress, and every child born unto her is a bastard.
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Does he make no distinction between the vaudeville, continuous performance buffoons and the thousands who are "not stars," but working well and perhaps hoping?
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If he made love chief, to deity and then destroy, its ecstacy blending with agony "as swells and swoons, across the wold the tinkling of the camel's bell," what then?
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You'll bring up bastards and beggars' pups but you won't help an honest man keep his head above water.
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As the man who found the child was a guardian of the other parish, he was trying to foist a bastard,--perhaps his own--upon their parish.
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"Damn the public!" said Mr. Stink, a dog-breeder member of the Board, thus antecedently plagiarizing an American millionaire.
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She confessed all about the Baby, and so the guardians traced the Baby's father and delivered to Ginx, through an agent, the famous child, with the benediction--"There he is; damn him!"
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Damn the good works!