Word: damn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Live Men. One soldier came and looked down, and he said out loud: "God damn it!" That's all he said, and then he walked away...
Another one came, and he said, "God damn it to hell anyway ! " He looked down for a few last moments and then turned and left...
Vandercook was born in London, son of a founder and first president of United Press. He went to New York boarding schools and for a year to Yale, which heartily bored him because "there were too damn many Republicans." Looking for an easy way of making a living after his father died, he tried acting ("I was appallingly bad"), did his night watching over the rummage sale, reported for various Scripps-Howard papers, from Columbus, Ohio, to Baltimore. He did not last long ("Very definitely, I wasn't any good. I dislike the haste of newspaper work; I frequently...
...wife wanly observes: "Some times I even wish he'd get interested in another woman." Another character, the father of a crowded and bewildered family, is at last able to explain to them the curio which has long adorned their mantelpiece - "Professor Caswell tells me this damn thing happens to be a Ubangi symbol of fertility." Another woebegone figure, a chicken farmer, is discovering the literal truth of the description on his chicken feed, "Lay or Bust." The stubborn hens are exploding all over the place. There is an angry hound who, with a great ripping of one pants...
Said Correspondent Lang: "I have seen the American combat soldier fighting in Tunisia and Italy. When he is hard pressed but skillfully led, he is courageous, tough, resourceful. He is a damn good soldier. But when he is asked why he is fighting he usually has little to say. He doesn't know. All he wants is to finish service and get home as soon as possible...