Word: damnedest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Times reviewer of the first night performance in 1881, last night's program informed me, suffered from an "embarras de richesse." Rather different pains attacked me; Patience is simply not worth performing. But, in all fairness, the G and S Players have done their damnedest to make the thing worth seeing...
...Rayburn, but 22 Republicans, mostly from the urban Northeast, crossed over the party line to save him from a humiliating defeat. When Rayburn announced the totals. Howard Smith stood up and shuffled off the floor and into the cloakroom. "Well," he said with a wan smile, "we done our damnedest." Rayburn's smile was far from wan. "We won." he said, his eyes dancing, "and I am satisfied...
...judges and the law have put so many safeguards around doctors." He points out that in some states (e.g., Arizona, New Mexico) malpractice cases are "very rare indeed," because doctors flatly refuse to give testimony that would show medical negligence by their colleagues. Says Belli: "It's the damnedest conspiracy, but it's understandable: the doctors fear reprisals-their insurance can be yanked, or they can be bumped off the hospital staff or find empty chairs beside them at the medical banquets." Doctors' self-imposed silence has prompted two states-Massachusetts and Nevada-to permit...
Philadelphia "lawyers are a breed apart, but even among Philadelphia lawyers "Chippy" Patterson was known as the damnedest fellow who ever came down Broad Street. For more than a quarter century (1907-33), he was notorious as the evil but lovable genius of the city's criminal courts, an attorney for the disreputable who passionately offered his services (generally free) as a devil's advocate for all forms of socially unacceptable behavior-and the more desperate the case, the better Chippy liked...