Word: damn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not you enjoy "Next Door", which opened Monday night at the Hollis depends entirely upon you. If you like a play that is undoubtedly clever and well written, that gets at least half of its laughs by having the charming young heroine say, "Damn;" and that is a faithful representation of domestic life in a small town by all means go and see it. If, on the other hand, you dislike seeing portrayed on the stage characters that you would shun in real life, characters that are unattractive, mediocre, cross and uninteresting, even in the heights of their...
...game hunter. Colonel Roosevelt Jr., 37, has had the least experience of any of the party in the kind of work that has been undertaken. He said to reporters : "If you must say I am following in my father's footsteps, at least please add that it takes a damn tough...
...inevitables for which people are supposed to go to cinema. Leave it he did, however, and thereby displayed rare good sense. For the picture, based upon the poem, is a sincere and sensitive document. It depicts the long sea exile of the man who said: "Damn the United States." It is an illustration of one of the sagas of U. S. history, and it deserves a place in everyone's calendar...
...There are three kinds of lies," said Mark Twain, "plain lies, damn lies, and statistics." When the New York Times editorial, quoted in an adjacent column, shows by repeated examples that college graduates do not furnish nine out of every ten leaders in society, it is not to be inferred that this excellent journal has gone over to the opposition. It is safe to hazard the guess that if the New York Times had a son, it would send him to college. What the Times does assert is that Mr. Albert E. Wiggam has played with his figures...
...quality than courage, that tone is a better word than color, or that sublety is a synonym for strength. "A picture," said the cold ones, "should be judged according to the terms of its own formula. Though his canvases, vehemently composed, daringly colored, win praise from people who might damn a better picture because it was subtle, restrained, they are not the less good art. A capable man, they said is this Zuloaga, who may well preside in dignity at the banquets of modern artists, but will doubtless twiddle with his napkin if ever, hereafter, he finds himself sitting next...