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Word: damns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have such a simple, fundamental fact stated correctly, than to parade a lot of French kindergarten phrases, such as "c'est les fraises maudites" "tout Paris," "les dames Ameriquaines" etc.? I am keeping tab on you out of sheer love and hope for your artistic success. (Any damn fool can make money.) Dropped lines seem to be chronic with you now. That kind of "dropsy" is worse than your competitor's edema verbosum. And such crudities as "war boats" and wan dirge" make one suspect that, after all, there may "be a reason" for letters like the "famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Suggest & Recommend | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Thomas Edison's European agent was the man who brought the young Tesla to the U. S. After his first job for Mr. Edison?an all-night job putting a steamer's lighting plant in commission?Mr. Edison ejaculated to an associate: "This is a damn good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Damn Good Man | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Episodes: Candidate for Governor of Illinois, Atheist Ingersoll is asked to state his allegiance to the Christian Church. "Man to man, Bob!" "What?" "What about it?" "Why, damn it, just this. My beliefs are my own and I wouldn't sacrifice one of them to be president of the whole rolling earth. Going? Well, take another cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Atheist | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...Damn the Bolsheviks, they put my eyes out! " screamed a blind man, trying to break through the crowd. Strong bobbies collared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reds Go | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...reporters, that Judge Thayer said: "I'll show them that no long-haired anarchist from California can run this court." The "long-haired anarchist" was Fred H. Moore, defense attorney, who had a reputation for defending radicals. Mr. Sibley added that Judge Thayer often called defense attorneys "those damn fools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Thayer Flayed | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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