Word: damn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest easy with the clear consciousness that if the crisis grows worse instead of better, public opinion and history cannot throw the blame on us." Opposition. The parties of the Opposition were not to be quieted by Benito's promises of reform. They met in plenary session to damn Fascismo, to lay the blame for the Matteotti affair at the door of the Government, to demand the abolition of the Fascist militia, to ask in veiled language for Benito's resignation, to state that they would not attend Parliament again "as long as the present conditions prevail...
...meantime, his active little figure had been acquiring added effulgence, reflected from the lights of Broadway. His name began to appear with increasing frequency in theatre-programs as the composer or arranger of incidental music. Liliom audiences may still recall and whistle his Look Out, Here Come the Damn Police, as vividly as they remember the acting of Schildkraut. He composed the pantomime used as a prelude to John Drink-water's Mary Stuart. He arranged the old songs used in Fashion, and wrote A Kiss in Xanadu, which provided the loveliest moments in Beggar on Horseback...
James A. Reed, senior U. S. Senator from Missouri: "As I stood in the doorway of the Daugherty investigation committee room, a messenger boy trod on my toes. Said I: 'I'm tired of having you damn kids tramp on my toes!' Said the boy, just as hotly: "I'm no more of a damn kid than you are a damn...
...remedied. Mayor James F. Curley, bursting from the confines of his office like the well-known Siberian monk, has issued a set of drastic regulations to curb prevailing immoralities and profanities of the stage. No more will delicate Bostonian ears be shocked with such paipable improprieties as "damn" and "hell"; instead, real hemen will be compelied to relieve their bursting hearts with "My gracious!" and "Oh dear...
...stir the average undergraduate than the idea of socialism. Some will argue on it until the small hours of the morning, fiercely pro or antagonistic. Some will laugh it off with a gesture, and immediately double three no trumps. While others may take occasion to curse "those damn radicals" and be more careful to lock their doors even when they...