Vulgar words in A Book of Burlesques (Page 1)

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ass x 1
damn x 7
hussy x 2
jackass x 1
            

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Once I seen him drink damn near a whole keg of beer.

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But the nigger of to-day isn't worth a damn.

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The public is an ass.

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Anyhow, Pachmann plays it a damn sight faster.

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If nobody comes into your compartment it's lonesome, and if anybody _does_ come in it's too damn sociable.

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THE FIRST MAN ... glad to get back ... damn tired ...

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... damn ...!

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... _damn_ ...!

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Suffice it to say that the vile arts of the hussy prevailed over that noble and upright man--that she enticed him, by adroit appeals to his sympathy, into taking her upon automobile rides, into dining with her clandestinely in the private rooms of dubious hotels, and finally into accompanying her upon a despicable, adulterous visit to Atlantic City.

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_III.--For Music Lovers_ From all piano-players save Paderewski, Godowski and Mark Hambourg; and from the _William Tell_ and _1812_ overtures; and from bad imitations of Victor Herbert by Victor Herbert; and from persons who express astonishment that Dr. Karl Muck, being a German, is devoid of all bulge, corporation, paunch or leap-tick; and from the saxophone, the piccolo, the cornet and the bagpipes; and from the theory that America has no folk-music; and from all symphonic poems by English composers; and from the tall, willing, horse-chested, ham-handed, quasi-gifted ladies who stagger to their legs in gloomy drawing rooms after bad dinners and poison the air with Tosti's _Good-bye_; and from the low prehensile, godless laryngologists who prostitute their art to the saving of tenors who are happily threatened with loss of voice; and from clarinet cadenzas more than two inches in length; and from the first two acts of _Il Trovatore_; and from such fluffy, xanthous whiskers as Lohengrins wear; and from sentimental old maids who sink into senility lamenting that Brahms never wrote an opera; and from programme music, with or without notes; and from Swiss bell-ringers, Vincent D'Indy, the Paris Opera, and Elgar's _Salut d'Amour_; and from the doctrine that Massenet was a greater composer than Dvorák; and from Italian bands and _Schnellpostdoppelschraubendampfer_ orchestras; and from Raff's _Cavatina_ and all of Tschaikowsky except ten per centum; and from prima donna conductors who change their programmes without notice, and so get all the musical critics into a sweat; and from the abandoned hussies who sue tenors for breach of promise; and from all alleged musicians who do not shrivel to the size of five-cent cigars whenever they think of old Josef Haydn--good Lord, deliver us!

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The cult served upon it is the worship of jackals by jackasses.

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