Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publication rights on all his writing. He was willing to take the chance of hurting book sales by advance publication in LIFE, so that more people could read the story. Wrote Novelist Hemingway to Daniel Longwell, LIFE Editorial Board Chairman: "Don't you think it is a strange damn story that it should affect all of us (me especially) the way it does? . . . I'm very excited about the book and that it is coming out in LIFE so that many people will read it who could not afford to buy it . . . It was wonderful luck Leland read...
...sell myself, which is a humiliating endeavor, although very well paid. I've always had a strange and strong dream that if I stopped and went back to Hartford, I wouldn't remember a thing about my acting career." She paused meditatively, and added: "Not one damn thing...
...registrar. Married, two sons. Jones recalls: "The Rabbit rushed thither and yon like a lost child, but dammit, he got things done . . . We kidded him because we others were a bunch of lazy guys sitting around on our duffs, and Stevenson was doing things . . . He took our kidding damn well, and in college you don't kid unless you like a guy . . . The Engineers have a slogan, 'Illegitimi Non Carborundum'* -Don't let the bastards wear you down-but in politics they do wear you down, as they wore down Steve's reluctance. I hope...
Douglas Ward, of Orange, N.J., went into real estate, then manufacturing (varnishes, synthetics). Married, three children. He recalls: "Stevenson was always messing around in club and class elections and liked to be in the center of things. We used to cry, 'You're as bad as your damn grandfather.' " Ward has decided to vote for Stevenson, has written Rabbit to that effect...
...great trouble with you, Pegler, is that you write too damn long. You run on and on like a hack driver's dream, bloviating about unions and the Constitution and the income tax, and you forget the white paper has been going up and up and that a newspaper has got to set a table of smorgasbord, with some of this and some of that ... to hold the readers who draw the advertisers who pay your princely stipend. Why don't you write more funny stuff? ... I guess you don't want people to know you still...