Word: damn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will always be a certain class which will scoff at such journals as The New Student and which will damn them with the stigma of being a pale pink rather than a blood red. And there are times when such a view is justified. As to this particular publication, however, the contrary holds true. In its sincerity and its very real sympathy for the high ideals for which colleges are striving. The New Student has shown itself a valuable addition to the ranks of constructive critics of modern pedagogies...
...Officer Gohane broke his club in two pieces. Officer Prior drew his pistol when the mob cried, "Get the damn cop!" Clubbing began soon after the students tried to tip over a patrol wagon. Besides ice and eggs, bottles, both pint and quart sizes, were hurled. Some of the students were suspected of having drunk intoxicants from some of the bottles...
...wife-petting. Husband (Allan Dine-hart) woos his Mexican oil wells. Wife (Claiborne Foster) languishes in the company of an artist friend powerful with women. Says Husband in plaintive self-defense: "A man who can make love in a falling market may be a hero but he is a damn poor businessman." Into the distress of the last act advances Mother...
...reason for his personal unpopularity is plain, the reason for his influence is no less intelligible. ... He has, what few men in public life have, and what no one in the present Government has in anything like the same measure, a constant philosophy of affairs and an undeviating aim. . . . 'Damn the consequences' and forge straight ahead is his maxim, and he has learned that by the impetus and driving power of conviction it is possible to ram any gospel down the throats of colleagues who have none...
...combine, juggle the stock, and sell out! Easy money!" Young Rowntree refrains from smashing Mr. Lockhart's face, stalks out of the room. But Lockhart forms the Consolidated (eleven big companies), gets himself elected president, starts a series of dastardy plots to "crush that young damn fool." ("Then, by God, I'll crush him to a pulp!" And Lockhart doubled his knuckled fists into two tight palsied knots.) But Rowntree is never crushed. At two o'clock one morning, pacing his father's library, he clutches at a musty volume. Out drops the secret letter which...