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Fiddlesticks. In Brisbane, Australia, Minister for Transport J. E. Duggan announced the results of a survey: only 2% of Australian longshoremen swear, while 29.8% of Members of Parliament use cuss words...
Author Steen is more in her element when Johnny comes marching home to break his heart in late-Victorian England -a world of hansom cabs and monocled cads, where every girl is in danger of losing something called her "reputation" and every man's favorite cuss word is a sibilant "Pish!" Still Author Steen does not fuss too much about period accuracy: her male characters speak fluent, up-to-date
...York Post Columnist Earl Wilson took off his clothes and attended a nudist convention at Sunshine Park, N.J. "If your wife wears a nightgown at breakfast," he wrote, "don't cuss her. Congratulate her. I looked rather thoroughly at these nude women and believe...
Died. Charles Williams Nash, 84, hardheaded, rags-to-riches automaker; of a heart ailment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An unschooled farm boy who called himself the "most common cuss in the world," he rose from upholstery stuffer to general superintendent of a Michigan carriage company, turned to automaking in 1910 with William Durant (organizer of General Motors). He was made president of G.M. in 1912, four years later left to go on his own, finally retired from active management of Nash when it merged with Kelvinator...
...cluttered desk in the cluttered expanse of the Star's city room, Roberts got General Eisenhower on the telephone in Washington. How did Ike feel about it now? Would he take a Democratic nomination? Roberts grinned around his cigar as the wire crackled with a string of cuss words. The General was angry. Hadn't he given his word? What kind of a fellow did they think...