Word: damn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many adventures. So this last leaves Mr. Farnol rather weak. Yet there are still a great many world-worn moderns, tired equally of Main Street and Mencken, who wish occasionally to roam along paths--and "The High Adventure" leads them thus. So perhaps it is not fair to damn, even with faint praise. "The High Adventure" will beguile many a world-worn modern--and more than beguile many a boy of fourteen who can take his dog for a grand walk when the book is read, a grand walk with stick a-flourishing and mind a-scurrying down the broad...
...sermons of these 25 the Christian Century published fortnightly over the year, issuing them later in book form. The pugnacity and frankness of the editors often bring them condemnation from the more conservative of ecclesiastical dignitaries. Somewhat as the Nation is highly esteemed for its brilliance by capitalists who damn its views, the Christian Century is read by churchmen whom it castigates...
...director of difficulties, moral, matrimonial and vehicular will find some journal of the haute monde of cleverness and thin satire on which to base his belief that the movies are right, that sin sits in high places. There will be times when other papers, with even less to damn them than "Hatrack" and less to sell them than Mencken, rest in naughty niches safe from the gaze of the Bostonian and the blessed...
...Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota (1843-1923), who was not without a stubborn streak himself, once remarked, " Andrew's all right, but he's too damn stubborn...
...made bees, bees made honey; God made men, men made money; God made Satan, Satan made sin; God made a little hole to put Satan in. Satan said he would not go; God said he should; Satan said, "If I go, God damn my blood...