Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damn fools...
Nothing makes a New Yorker happier than the sight of an old building rich in memories of the past-unless it is tearing the damn thing down and replacing it with something in chromium and plate glass, with no traditions at all. Last week, as Manhattan vibrated to its biggest building boom since the '20s, old landmarks were toppling all over town...
When he first stood in the empty quiet of his new Senate office a year ago, Douglas confided to his secretary: "All I want is to be a damn good Senator." Since then he has modified that ambition somewhat. "All I want is to be half as good a Senator as old George Norris." At 57, he was off to a good start...
...July 1906, Walter Sherman Gifford, then 21 and two years out of Harvard, wrote his father the glad news of his promotion to assistant secretary & treasurer of Western Electric Co. Salary: $24 a week. Snapped the elder Gifford, a fiercely independent Yankee lumberman: "Any damn fool can make a success in a corporation...
...Happy Time" from becoming a second "I Remember Mama"--a worthy goal--are Mr. Lewis' determined efforts at diverting even the touching scenes in a farcial direction. This gets howls from the audience and I should hope yelps from the Messrs. Fontaine and Taylor, if they give a damn about their joint creation...