Word: dammit
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...wives and sweethearts began to ask why British menfolk had to wait for an American news magazine to appreciate them, latent male jealousy asserted itself. "On behalf of the Brit ish male," wrote the Star's Columnist Colin Frame, "I resent the implication that we have no judgment. Dammit all, 99.9% of us marry them, don't we?" Britain's Independent Television News set up cameras on Bond Street near TIME-LIFE'S London office, and after some beauty-spotting (to a background reading of TIME'S text), concluded: "TIME...
...melancholy experience: "Smoking is easy to give up; I've done it hundreds of times." They are also liable to feel pretty bad-tempered. Another author became so testy when he gave up smoking that his wife finally stuck a lighted cigarette in his mouth and shouted, "Smoke, dammit, smoke!" That could well be the battle cry of the U.S. tobacco industry...
...lumber mill outside the town, knows them well; jungle vines are spreading over the mill and pigs root through his crumbling office. "It's here," he says. "No doubt about it-all the riches on earth. I don't know how to get it out, but dammit"-he pounded his desk so hard the Scotch bottle jumped-"it's here! We need men, real...
...give him love and affection. American law is against a woman. If I go in a room and see a very attractive man, I don't think about him as a man, but as a business partner. My class woman has no chance for love. She thinks, dammit, the man's marrying me for my money. It's only poor people who are really happy...
There are certain stage personas that middle-age, middle-class, middle-brow men and women will pay good money to see. One is the dashing international gypsy, suave and prestigious, something of a rascal, preferably done in a clipped British accent. Another is the brusque, dammit-to-hell type society woman, a kind of orthodox Auntie Mame, who bustles around and smokes like a man. The audience, of course, likes to dream themselves into the two for an evening. What the actors do while they walk around in these characters doesn't matter a whole...