Word: damn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flying alone this time, but with a Sperry automatic pilot and a directional radio. Through fog, heavy clouds and snow, Pilot Post, robot & radio cut a superbly accurate course to Berlin in the phenomenal time of 25 hr. 45 min. The slowness of mechanics at Tempelhof Airdrome enraged him. "Damn it, I want to push on," he fumed, and paced the field impatiently for two hours while mechanics turned the cranks of slow fuel-pumps. Off again, Winnie Mae got to the Russian border, was driven by thunderstorms back to Koenigsberg, East Prussia, where Pilot Post grudgingly took five hours...
...Investigation. It was edited by Columbia's Professor John Dewey, famed philosopher and unselfish friend, of every reform. In satirically simple language it described the city's "boss system" in terms of the spiciest testimony from last year's scandal hunt, let ex-Mayor "Jimmy" Walker damn himself out of his own mouth and left young heads to puzzle over the fortunes party workers collected in tin boxes...
...this stage is complicated and expensive but it will represent a notable contribution to progress. ... In the perpetual experimentation which has marked the evolution of the great Tribune plant [errors, disappointments, expense] have never checked its progress. . . . The motto is Farragut's: 'Full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes.' " One of the torpedoes to be damned by Col. McCormick is an estimated cost which may reach...
...Lords to bow three times before the Lord Chancellor and take his seat as a peer of the realm, Harry J. Hahn reappeared in the New York Press, with every phrase of the art expert's vocabulary at the tip of his tongue. Mr. Hahn was ready to damn Lord Duveen anew and present a trunkful of new evidence to prove that his wife's painting was the Leonardo masterpiece. He said he would shortly publish a book entitled Andrée Hahn versus Sir Joseph Duveen...
...Noel Coward, "Max" Beaverbrook, T. S. Eliot, Otto Kahn, Winston Churchill, Andre Gide, John Galsworthy, Lord Birkenhead, George Moore. He liked most people. Of an evening when Shaw was present he notes: "Shaw talked practically the whole time, which is the same thing as saying that he talked a damn sight too much...