Word: damned
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Perhaps he became an eccentric just to show he didn't give a damn about those who snubbed him. He collected a circle of hangers-on who called him "Lord" Timothy and he gloried in the title. In his curious book called A Pickle for the Knowing Ones; or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress, he proclaimed: "Ime the first Lord in the younited States of Amercay ... It is the voice of the peopel and I cant help it." He kept a private poet and had him crowned at an elaborate public ceremony, once brought a lion from...
...Niels Bundesen, 78, president of Chicago's Board of Health for 29 years, a widely read writer on baby care; of cancer; in Chicago. A tireless fighter against epidemic, Bundesen once said, with his usual blunt sense: "I'm obnoxious and noisy, but Chicago has the best damn health record in the world...
Perhaps no critic of London's Savile Row will ever surpass the wrathful British nobleman who once rode his horse into his tailor's, and while it messed up the carpet complained about his riding breeches: "Too tight at the fork and the kneepan, damn you, too baggy everywhere else!" Last week criticism in the century-old sartorial capital of the male world was being heard once again. The topic was still baggy trousers...
...Frank Merritt, in command of operations at the Leopoldville end: "The boys have been at it long, hard hours, and so have the planes. Some of my boys have had to go 36 hours without sleep. Our Hercules planes have had remarkably little maintenance -they're the best damn planes we've ever...
Winifred Wells, Lady Falmouth, the Countess of Kildare, Frances Stuart, Lou ise de Keroualle, Hortense Mancini and Nell Gwynn. "God would not damn a man for a little irregular pleasure," Charles said happily to a friend. Dignity sometimes demanded that he send John Wilmot, the licentious second Earl of Rochester, to the Tower of London for writing obscene satires. But the King always...