Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history and the classics; ride horses. Women: go to Europe; learn the French and English languages; study architecture and modesty." From Author-Professor Henry Steele Commager (America in Perspective): "Keep an open mind and an experimental attitude . . . Don't be perfectionist. Avoid the doctrinaire and the purely theoretical . . . Damn the absolute...
...bedpost. There is a visitor to their household who writes modern Gothic novels about an evil spirit named Slime Shindigs, and who can see a little blue light hovering over the house. His function is to play Cassandra, which he does by jamming about the blue light and his damn Shindigs (which, spelled backwards, you see, is almost Myles Standout: Puritanism...
Grey-haired, 36-year-old Jim McMillin whooped like a schoolboy, almost threw himself overboard in his frenzy of delight. All he could say was, "Damn, damn. We won it!" The winning time: 6:28.8 for the 2,000 meters, 20 seconds better than Harvard's a year...
Rupert is undoubtedly the cleverest squirrel in captivity; unfortunately the movie is not good Durante humor. The Great Proboscis, forced to share top billing with the damn squirrel, has been given only a few really funny lines and he never goes into one of the long stories which are his specialty. Durante does, however, perform at the piano a couple of times...
...probably the best unedited paper in the world." Washington Correspondent John Day of the Louisville Courier-Journal aptly summed up this feeling of reluctant admiration recently. "There are mornings," he told Publisher Sulzberger, "when I grab hold of a copy of the Times and say to it: 'Damn you, I'm going to read you if it kills...