Word: damns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herr Piscator smiled, mumbled something about "Wilhelm" growing reizbar (touchy) in his old age, stated that he saw no difference in the former All Highest being photographed for the cinema (which the Emperor-King Wilhelm is always willing to do), declared that he would produce the play and "damn the consequences...
...flunked anyway" for the sole purpose of passing that quiz; taken like a doze of salt instead of as food. Notes, if any are unsystematic, unimportant, and useless for review. They are probably not looked at again until the final exam Final grade "D"-disappointment because he "really worked damn had for that exam," is it not much better to study the material in the course so that it is understood and assimilated? If the Freshman can be made to do that he has learned something-about the course, to be sure-but, what is more important in the future...
...absence of really good drama but there are arid spots in every menu. Announcement of the coming of a Shakespearean company for a month's stay should hearten the gloomy and serve as an indicator, perhaps, for the future months. In the meantime it is not necessary wholly to damn the merry-merry, which is, to some, a bone on which to gnaw during a famine...
...jangle of "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" stopped suddenly on a loud note, there was a great roaring of competitive anecdotes. Bellowed one bottle-nosed sport, ". . . And boy, I almost brought her home and married her. Yes, and by God if the damn kid didn't get himself shot over in France, after all the trouble I went to on his account. . . ." Boasted a lanky comedian, ". . . Maybe you don't remember the night down in Santiago when the Colonel bummed a drink of my whiskey and I wrapped...
...will. Out of the night comes Mr. Torrence, with his rough-and-rum-necks, to capture Mr. Gilbert & crew. There is a grand and gory fight just before the U. S. Coast Guard ship arrives. The rivals die in each other's arms, agreeing that each is "a damn good guy." Miss Crawford's kiss is on Mr. Gilbert's lips. It is a good picture...