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Word: damns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just why king-snakes and Boston debs seemed incompatible could not be explained by Gilbert last night, but the smile on his face as he splashed round in a rum-and coca-cola seemed to show that he didn't give a damn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNAKE CAUSES DISTURBANCE AT BELLBOY KIDDIES PARTY | 5/20/1938 | See Source »

Your paper a decided asset to the above mentioned business [radio script, continuity, production]. Clear, concise, telling all there is to tell without mouthing the damn stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1938 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Luck. If the career of the Mercury Theatre, which next week will be six months old, seems amazing, the career of Orson Welles, who this week is 23, is no less so. Were Welles's 23 years set forth in fiction form, any self-respecting critic would damn the story as too implausible for serious consideration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Marvelous Boy | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Hopkins, Faulkners, Pounds you damn In toto...

Author: By Rockwell Hollands, | Title: Hicks and Hillyer Residing in Same House Presents Problem | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

...This vessel is bound from San Francisco to Yokohama and Oriental ports with general cargo and one passenger. In all, there are 41 souls aboard, that is if those damn fools who go to sea can have souls. . . . Should this be picked up by a boy contemplating a sea career, let him ... go into the purser's department of an American company. After a surprising short time, by tattling on the ships' officers for breaches of decorum ... he will be moved into the main office as an assistant something or other to one of the 978 vice presidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Crudest Mistress | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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