Word: damn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rabelais is famous for his "Pantagruel" (three books) and his "Gargantua" He was a humanist and called a spade a spade; his motto was: 'Fais ce que voudras' or 'Do what damn please'--a fine dope to follow if you have a barrel of money, but for a poor guy it means prison inside of a week. Rabelais was an all 'round bad guy, didn't believe in God, and led a pretty fast life. His works show it, and they'd never do for a Girls' School, but would make a big hit with some college men I know...
...regrets. I'm still as good, if not a damn sight better, than a lot of men with both legs...
...Keep talking until they find those damn slides...
...enthusiasm was so quickly fired that she wanted to lend a hand. Four months later the job was done. Of the 72 poems (about half of Baudelaire's published poetry), 36 were translated by Poet Millay, 35 by Dillon. One they did together. They omitted only one (Femmes Damnées) of the six poems that seemed scabrous to the Paris police of 1857. Though she admits that some of their versions are not so much translations as adaptations, Poet Millay says that in every instance they have used the original metre and form, invites comparison by printing Baudelaire...
Thence, knighthood in my blood, I to seek a lady to serve. Whereupon comes the Old Woman, but today, very strange, she did look most fair. "Madame, this day I am your Knight; but bid me and with one stroke of my sword I'll wipe out the whole damn scrubbing business!" Whereupon she did throw me down the stairs...