Word: damns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before, so it was last week, only perhaps more so. Again, the most memorable remarks of the week came neither from apostle nor statesman but from a Detroit manufacturer. Henry Ford first remarked that he did not know how rich he was, that he did not care a damn. "I don't give a damn," he shouted to the eager U. S. as represented by honest newsmen. "No, not a damn." Then he remarked, casually, pontifically, that Hoover was the man (see p. 7). Then he remarked that he and son Edsel expected to fly to South America this...
...hearse's next load may consist of-you. They'll take you out and they'll lower you down, While men with shovels stand all around; They'll throw in dirt and they'll threw in rocks, And they won't give a damn if they break the box. The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out, They crawl all over your chin and mouth, They invite their friends and their friends' friends too And you look like hell when they're -through-with you. There are long narrative songs...
...Thompson, college editors and the slightly envious press agents of the eastern mayors to the contrary, is not a complete fool. His slogan is obviously, "praise me or damn me, but be sure to mention my name", and there is little doubt that all the maligning he receives in the public press will do more than increase his plurality in the next Chicago election. Politics and publicity are synonymous, and the easiest way to attain the latter is by insulting the intelligentsia and amusing the thinking minority. Harrying the agents of George the Fifth from the land and smoking...
...story is fabricated around the fabulous adventures of Barbara Frietchie, who falls in love with Captain Trumbull, a "damn Yankee." For the purposes of the plot Barbara is transformed from the elderly dame of "shoot if you must this old gray head" fame to a winsome flaxen-haired flower of the South. Needless to say, her father opposes the marriage, sah, in which opinion he is supported by all the lads and lassies of the town who vilify Barbara as traitor, overlooking the fact that among their number are many able bodies young fellows who spend their time lounging around...
...became serious; the murmuring grew to open and vociferous criticism. The public grievance was even aired in Parliament. But all this fuss and pother was to no avail. When the "old man" on Boar's Hill heard about it, he said unpoetically: "I don't give a damn!" When the public heard that, it rather liked it. and settled down to like Dr. Bridges, just as it had settled down to like Queen Victoria after decades of indecorous criticism...