Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nikita-damn...
...ahead. Says he: "Nobody is going to hand me the nomination. If I were governor of a large state, Protestant and 55, I could sit back and let it come to me. But if I am going to get it, I'll have to work for it-and damn hard...
Died. Frederick Sullens, 80, fire-eating editor (for the last 52 years) of Mississippi's Jackson Daily News, bushy-browed old-style columnist (The Low Down on the Higher Ups) and prying reporter ("I may be a lousy editor, but I can still do a damn good job of reporting"), who was always ready to back up his razor-edged wit and deadly personal insult with well-worn fists; of cancer; in Jackson, Miss. Though he was a lifelong foe of Negro-baiters ("hysterical rabble-rousers and spouting demagogues"), and scathingly attacked the late Senator Theodore Bilbo, Representative John...
...told me customers are prone to lie a little bit. He said I believed too much of what a customer told me about deals other salesmen would give them. He told me to remain honest and straightforward-give the best deal I could. But, of course, never believe a damn thing one of them says...
...proved Madison Avenue more wrong than ever. With two-thirds of the show sold (to Aluminium Ltd. and Union Carbide), and the other third bid for, Omnibus kicked off with a slickly attractive white-shoe production of Stover at Yale, a tongue-in-dimpled-cheek musical adaptation by Douglass (Damn Yankees) Wallop of the old Owen Johnson stories. Much of the play lived up to Alistair Cooke's introduction of it as "a gentle thing, both odd and funny." When the boola overflowed with the fun of the Turkey trot, ragtime and jagtime at Mory's, and naughty...