Word: damningly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Policy. The insurgents and progressives will continue to damn the World Court and the League of Nations, the Democrats will advocate both, while the Administration forces will probably steer a middle course-mildly pro-Court but anti-League...
...public cheerfully damns the press, saying: " It's full of lies." Many journalists damn it, saying: "There are no great editors left." Rising, gray-haired and aged, to be sole defender of the press, comes a representative of a former generation of journalists. He is Talcott Williams, a newspaperman for 50 years in Springfield, Mass., Manhattan and Washington-an authority on Turkish affairs (he was born in Turkey) and now, in his 75th year, Director and Professor Emeritus of the School of Journalism of Columbia University...
...better than 'Oedepus Rex'", he said in a sudden burst of enthusiasm. "It is damn good melodrama. People think that there is something learned and scholastic about it. But it's not. It's the sort of play that any one can enjoy. It has rapid action and gripping dramatic interest. And that's why I'm giving this production,--to show that a great classic play can be enjoyed. I don't want just the highly educated to come to this play; I want the great public,--the man in the street. It has its appeal not only...
...singular mixture of God and God damn; of moving truth and gaudy melodrama; of authentic dramatic intensity and (at least two examples of) incredible ill taste- such...
...These people, whispered the ward executive, as he was being introduced, don't care a damn about the tax rate, or the schools, or the health department, or any other issue of the campaign. All they care about is this antivivisection stuff. If you are with them on that, they will be with you, and if you are against them, they will be against you to a man. They are worth about 1,500 votes. There are no reporters here and if you say the right thing we can get them...