Vulgar words in Further Foolishness (Page 1)
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Or at times he would say to his father, "Boob (Russian for father), what is three times six?"
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"Damn foolishness," gurgled the Heavy Business Friend, sipping his port.
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(III) HIS PARTNER AT BRIDGE The man is a complete ass.
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I couldn't help saying to him, at the end of the evening, in a tone of such evident satire that anyone but an ass would have recognised it, that I had seldom had as keen an evening at cards.
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The jackass merely said--quite amiably and unconsciously --that he thought I'd play a good game presently.
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I had hardly started to talk about the rate of exchange on the German mark in relation to the fall of sterling bills--a thing that you would think a whole table full of people would be glad to listen to--when first thing I knew the whole lot of them had ceased paying any attention and were listening to an insufferable ass of an Englishman--I forget his name.
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All through dinner that ass talked --he and that silly young actor they're always asking there that is perpetually doing imitations of the vaudeville people.
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And when we went upstairs to the drawing-room I found myself, to my disgust, side-tracked in a corner of the room with that supreme old jackass of a professor--their uncle, I think, or something of the sort.
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I used to get soup for three cents, and roast beef with potatoes, all you could eat, for eight cents, that tasted better than anything I can ever get in this damn club.
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The Boobs of Boobenstein," he added proudly, "are connected with the Hohenzollerns.
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'Yes' said the Duke, with a very rigid bow, 'but it was a damn sight wetter, sir, on the morning of Waterloo.'