Word: damns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are some personalities conjoined to such abilities that critics damn themselves for the faintness of their praise and strangle their vocabularies in ecstatic anguish at the failure of their word-slaves to express the frenzy of their passion...
...instead of being patient he may have what psychologists call a "superiority complex." His schedule says he is due in class. The bell says, "Come!" -- "Damn schedule and bell and the whole infernal family of calendars and clocks!" And he cuts his class...
...Juan is discovered on the brink of Hell; he obtains from the Devil ten years' respite; and is finally seen as the ten years end. The Devil brings back to damn him the 1,003 women whom he deceived in life...
...Teazle by O. P. Heggle, and Sir Oliver by Mr. Ben Field were also particularly notable; and among the minor parts Mr. De Angelis, as Moses, was the best stage Jew we have ever seen, bar none. James Dale as Joseph Surface was oily enough and hypocritical enough to damn forever the "man of sentiment", perhaps too much so to make plausible his imposing on honest old Sir Peter...
...Mark Hanna, Lillian Russell, George Coxey, John L. Sullivan, was one of the outstanding idols of a period that worshiped modesty in all forms, including the nude. Ladies would prod his dorsal, deltoid and pectoral development with carefully gloved fingers and ask if he were real. Sporting gentlemen with Damn-my-eyes and By-God-Sirs would lay their wagers on him when he matched strength with Samson, Cyclops, Atlas, Ajax or Hercules (rival strongmen). He was renowned for many years as the "strongest man in the world." He was appointed private trainer to His Majesty George V. He made...