Word: damns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expensive furniture. Famed for his manners and mustache, both rough and blunt, Mr. Markle once said that he was successful in finance because "I'd rather fight than eat." Asked what he planned to do with his 41 rooms, Mr. Markle replied: "It's nobody's damn business...
Said he later: "She was such a pretty baby, I hated like hell to see her die. When I got home I washed my mouth with lysol. I was a damn fool to do that. I couldn't eat for two days. No, I wasn't afraid...
...more comfortable position on the desk. "My sympathies are always with Yale. You fellows kind of liberated up there in the last 15 years. Before that you were pretty high-hat. . . . . Any man like myself, who hasn't taken a chance to get an education is a damn fool...
...Look at the Middle West, prosperous, and here in New England we're slipping. I'll bo the biggest gun this town ever produced if I can get the shoe manufacturies to this town. We ought to have a fighting admiral in the Navy Department, not an Annapolis grad. Damn shame politics and the Navy have to mix up. When I'm a little older...
...education again. "If I'd wanted to, I coulda been one of the best college students goin'. I got the bug on law. I'd really show some of them buzzards if I was a lawyer. Prohibition, now I used to argue for prohibition, but it's just a damn farce the way it's going now. We oughta be free, and do what we want to. What's the Statue of Liberty for, anyway...