Word: damns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...membership and financial records until the sidewalk was white with torn paper. With the headquarters in ruins, the wreckers moved two doors down the street to a striker's grocery store, tossed out its contents, departed into the darkness-before-dawn, leaving this sign: WE HAVE QUIT YOUR DAMN UNION In their underclothes, National Guardsmen rushed up just in time to arrest the no-longer snoring strikers and lodge them in the Gastonia jail for rioting. Thus did the textile strike in North Carolina (TIME, April 8) become rough last week. The National Textile Workers' Union...
...Damn your Jesuit brother!" roared Clemenceau, "I say you are M. le Di-recteur de I'École Supérieure de Guerre, and all the Jesuits in creation can't alter that fact...
...hand, the crowd pressed close upon the building in their enthusiasm, with the result that many overzealous individuals were completely routed when a torrent of water, unleashed from the hose, escaped from a broken window. In another instance, the firemen, taunted with concerted chants of "Let it burn!" and "Damn the firemen", turned the hose and swept the crowd, somewhat dampening the ardor of the surging ranks...
...observing that such a competition proves little of importance. Harvard may claim that she admits better material than Yale: she may even argue that her English department offers more thorough preparation for such at test. Yale would not dispute the point, because it is not worth a tinker's damn. It provides a source of raillery for Harvard undergraduates to use against their Yale friends: it probably also makes certain Harvard professors quite satisfied with their ability. But the "brain contest" does not alter the fact that each is a great University, proceeding along somwhat different lines. Each aims...
...press agentry recently included a story of Lupe's gifts from her leading-man ("sweetie"), Gary Cooper. These were two live, well-mated, very hungry eagles, and one stuffed eagle. Lupe was quoted: "Thees heegles-they eat and eat, now that damn mamma heegle, I hate her, for I theenk she get more and more fat and pretty soon poor Lupe she have little heegles all over the place, all eating rabbits and more round steak...