Word: damns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Times (Dem.) : "Let me light the damn thing first...
...cancer; nor is there any trace of sickroom smirk nor of professional "strut in the way he does it. His style, in fact, is colored with a richness of literary allusion. For instance: "Do you remember Joe, the fat boy at whom Mr. Wardle was always shouting 'Joe! Damn that boy, he's asleep again'? Joe had an overpowering predilection for meat pies and mutton and roast beef. He is a humorous character, in fiction. In real life, he would be Tragedy personified, because Joe was the victim of chronic poisoning...
...Minnetonka docked in Manhattan, unshipped 46 mounts for the Englishmen, escorted by Col. Melvill. Eight of these steeds will soon be followed over by their owner, Edward of Wales. Of this latter, said Melvill: "He's quite a good rider and a damn sight braver than...
Sued for Separation. Gosta Morner, 26, Swedish Count, President of a toothpaste plant in Chicago, by Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, 30, on grounds of nonsupport. Morner denied the charge, asserted that she married him for his title. Said she: "I didn't give a damn for his title. If I wanted one, I could have been a princess or something...
...letters of Madame are different. She was essentially a woman of the don't-give-a-damn-what-I-say type, and for this very reason her letters have for many years been invaluable to historians. In a letter to the Duchess of Hanover she says: "You may be sure that I am very much annoyed with the King for treating me like a serving wench. That would have been all right for his precious Maintenon.* She was born for that sort of treatment but I was not." Most people found it dangerous to write of their Sovereign...