Word: damnedest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That either means joint wage agreements or the damnedest strike you ever...
Gladys Hasty Carroll is not a Pollyanna, but she strongly sympathizes with her hero, who says: "I know something most folks don't seem to know. I know this world is full of the damnedest sweetest people a man would ever hope to meet." Not everybody in Neighbor to the Sky could be called sweet, but both Author Carroll and her hero reach their last-page goal without changing their minds. Like her earlier novels of Maine (As the Earth Turns, A Few Foolish Ones), Author Carroll's latest is as sound and sweet as a good Baldwin...
...have been reading the Bible, and it's the damnedest most interesting book I ever read in my life...
...lives at "Bishopstead" in Wilmington. His specialty has been home missions. When he went to the War he told his friends: "I don't know what I'm going to do along the lines, but you may be sure I'll do my damnedest...
...Stander refused to remain as chemist. At 28 he was one of the best colloid chemists in the U. S. Was it money? No! Why, then? Because, blurted Dr. Stander, a Yale medical graduate, son of a South African country doctor: "Because I'm going to be the damnedest best obstetrician in this country." A Manhattan event last week marked him as superlatively good, if not the best. The vast new medical centre of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College Association opened for patients and Dr. Stander was head of its department of obstetrics & gynecology, director...