Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jones decided to gamble, put up the $10,000 required for last-minute entries and frankly labeled him a long shot. Barbizon, said Jimmy, "reminds me of a big, good-natured country kid who don't know where he left his schoolbooks and don't give a damn. He don't always have his mind on his business...
...town next week, and the only thing the missus and I want to see is My Fair Lady." If the show is not My Fair Lady, sold out until April, then it is The Most Happy Fella, currently sold out for five or six weeks, or Damn Yankees, which after a year and a half on Broadway still sells out nightly. Such phone calls as these have led to one of the last great black markets in the U.S.a ticket market operated by scalpers and fostered by businessmen living in an expense-account economy, where price is no object...
...week, as the 1957 Broadway season began picking up steam, Manhattan's scalpers never had it so good. Not only was My Fair Lady still going strong and bringing at least $60 a pair for tickets v. $26 a pair for The Most Happy Fella and $20 for Damn Yankees, but a whole series of surefire new hits were on the way. Opening next week, Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell, has a million-dollar advance sale, is virtually sold out through March. Bells Are Ringing, with Judy Holliday, has rave out-of-town notices and a $750,000 advance...
...were determined to get them in the picture. We got some little sponge crabs. We left them alone because we wanted them to be happy. We didn't bother them, except to feed them, and didn't turn on any lights. And they didn't do a damn thing!" Finally, after weeks of trying unsuccessfully to get the crabs to dress themselves up like sponges, he and the group gave up and turned on the lights. "And as soon as we turned on the lights... it was as if the crabs had screamed, 'Ye Gods, we're naked,' "They dived...
...good idea to send the tleet to force the Dardanelles. It would cheer the Russians ; it would get Russian grain ships through to Britain; and it would break the bloody stalemate of trench warfare on the Western front. Only Admiral Sir John Fisher had forebodings. ''Damn the Dardanelles," he said. "They will be our grave...