Word: damn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than I. So convinced am I that I'll bet a dollar to a slug that you have seen more than one well come in; you know what a hell of a racket three million feet of gas will make coming out of 2" tubing; and just how damn slick a rig floor can get after the first few barrels of Big Injun crude has squirted up and hit the crown pulley and is now raining down through the rig like an April cloud burst. . . . JIM VANDERGRIFT...
...Brother chairman! I don't give a damn how important this is. It's hot as hell in here. Will someone open some windows...
...begin with, avers Author Brown, there is too much muddled sentimentalizing about society's responsibility for the insane. Most patients are the victims of their own ''damn foolishness." Business men (the largest group) at Bloomingdale were there because they were "hogs"' who cracked up trying to outdo Rockefeller. Another big group were reaping the just reward of philandering and boozing. ''Love nests rear nothing but 'cuckoos.' ' Then again, the hit-or-miss breeding of the human race "is largely to blame." His own breakdown occurred in 1929, after directorship...
...married her, but last March he ar rived in Manhattan, brideless and damning a U. S. Consul in Jugoslavia. "He got to have proof can I support her. I tell him about Wiseman. He no listen. I been to Washington to the State Department. I been to Bob Marshall.* I been to the Alaska Congressman.† I got a lawyer. We telephone Zagreb, Jugoslavia. He cost me $34. We sending telegrams four times. I go to Seattle, get affidavits from seven wholesale houses which sell to me in Wise man how much I buy. I come back to Washington again...
...object lesson. Dr. Hale named his hero Philip Nolan, built around him a story of treason and punishment so detailed that it sounded true. In the story Nolan is arrested for plotting with Aaron Burr to found a kingdom in the Southwest. At his trial he exclaims, "Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!", is therefor sentenced to perpetual imprisonment at sea with no word from home. Like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Hale's short story continued to be read long after its immediate purpose was forgotten. More than half...