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Word: damn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictionary calls it "a catarrhal affection of the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and respiratory tract," and Oliver Wendell Holmes said that the only cure for it "is six feet of gravel, taken externally," but all these unfortunates cursed with hay fever know that it is one damn nuisance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sneezers Writhe As Posies Bring Seasonal Malady | 5/2/1947 | See Source »

...combines simple historical fact with a feasible amount of action to become one of the few examples of a vivid and unprocessed documentary film. The only annoying moment during the picture is the indignant attempt of the Boston Censors to seratch out Mr. Rafferty's one chance to say "damn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/1/1947 | See Source »

...them damn Yard pigeons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Early Birds Top Bookworms In 'Operations Ornithology' | 4/29/1947 | See Source »

What had bothered Washburn into coming to Washington was the feeling he had got from his local newspapers that something was wrong with Congress. He had come East to find out what it was, concluded that Congressmen "weren't doing a damn thing," and decided to stoke the coals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...local setting that Boston might do with a corps of psycho analysts. Would that it would that simple. Like the city he lived in, the original George Apley was a creature of deep conflicts and inner restlessness. Ronald Colman does no better than an imitation of any neighborhood's damn fool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Late George Apley | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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