Word: damn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the manager of the theatre where Within the Gates was to have been performed ruefully returned thousands of dollars worth of advance orders for tickets, John Tuerk, one of the play's producers, snorted: "Boston politicians have certainly made damn fools of Bostonians again." Professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana announced that he was going to give a public reading of the play to see what the civic authorities would...
...Bravo Citizen D. J. Foss! . . . Down with undertakers, and their ballyhooing, cemetery lot speculation, sumptuous undertaking palaces, etc.! What do the dead care for a real mahogany casket or a metal one? Aprés moi-I don't give a damn...
...answer to the uneasy rumbling voiced by businessmen at a Congress of American Industry, Donald Richberg taunted: "Unless the businessmen of America have been shell-shocked into nervous impotence, there must come a time when they will respond to the fighting spirit of that old admiral who signaled, 'Damn the torpedoes. Go ahead...
...years at Quarantine." Unconnected with Captain Binks's retirement was the accident seven months ago in which the Olympic cut the Nantucket Lightship in half, killed seven of her crew (TIME, May 28). To newshawks last week he said he "didn't give a Cape Horn damn" about quitting the sea, later confessed he hated to leave it. Of the future he said: "I shall do just what my wife wants me to, as you married men know. . . . I've told her to buy me a bit of a bungalow near a graveyard and I shall...
...paralytic stroke; at Fort Worth, Tex. He got his start in 1872 when two successive deals in cattle left him with enough money to buy 600,000 acres of land in northern Texas. In 1902 when he found oil on his land he ignored it with the remark: "Damn the oil. I need water for my cattle." Eight years later he uncovered the great North Texas oil field. With a fortune estimated at $100,000,000 he amused himself in later years by building the $3,000,000 Arlington Downs race track, breeding horses, erecting Texas skyscrapers...