Word: cussedness
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The isolated incident quickly became two. Bellicose Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. had degraded another enlisted man. Private Charles Herman Kuhl had written home to Indiana: "General Patton slapped my face yesterday and kicked me in the pants and cussed me." Kuhl, like the unnamed artilleryman whose slapping precipitated...
> Cussed a U.S. Army Headquarters dictum that required a three-month cooling-off period for soldiers who want to marry British girls.
"One or two men of note, such as philosopher William Ernest Hocking '01 have even stood up to President Conant, let alone cussed the Kluxers. . . . And the boys are taking bets on what will happen to him."
Coal-bearing West Virginia was getting its coal on prescription (as other States had to get liquor during Prohibition) because John Llewellyn Lewis and operators in the great Appalachian coal fields had been unable to agree to a new wage contract. There had been no "strike." There was simply an...
In Des Moines the Henry Wallaces were either renowned for their independence, or cussed for their stubbornness. Henry Wallace I, a Presbyterian preacher, launched Wallace's Farmer ("Good Farming. Clear Thinking. Right Living.") at the age of 60 despite the best professional opinion that it would fold in six...