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...This," said one disgusted A.P. photographer, "is the damnedest war I ever saw. It's all front-with no back and no sides to it." Sometimes a road may be quite peaceful; the next moment it may be swept with gunfire. Even with Arab, Jewish and British press cards, it is a problem to get people on the spot to accept you. In the Arab quarter of the old city, for example, unless you have an armed escort from the Arabs' national headquarters, you might be fired on, attacked by a crowd as a Jewish spy, or arrested...
Have a hunch there may yet be material for my weekly toast, commenting to himself, when the young lady wondered if Harvard had ever won the pennant. Vag, you talk yourself into the damnedest things, he said, almost aloud, and then, most audibly, he was singing "with Crimson in triumph flashing" and feeling quite at home...
...Ceiling (Jan.). In Tokyo, ricksha boys and pedestrians sprinted their damnedest to comply with U.S. 35-m.p.h. speed-limit signs...
...Criminal Courts Building where Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur laid the scene of their famed newspaper play. Grey survivors of Front Pager Hildy Johnson's day were at work on the story. Said 63-year-old Albert Benziger of the Herald-American: "This is without doubt the damnedest story we've ever had. Hildy would be having a hell of a time with...
...Ceiling. In Tokyo, rickshaw boys and pedestrians sprinted their damnedest to comply with U.S. 35-m.p.h. speed limit signs...