Word: damns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Oct. 18, in your discussion of ceramics, you quote Roman Pliny -"Sanctiora auro, certe innocentiora." The citation is as apt and as moral as the quotation itself, but I must blush for your translation-"more sacred than gold, and a damn sight less harmful." Such a rendition assumes that Pliny wrote in the manner of a modern encyclopaedic general and columnist who is both ribald and biblical, and that the Latin word "certe" had assumed new meaning since the birth of Christ. . . . The Romans swore in a different way, invoking Hercules, Castor, or Pollux most frequently. . . . SYDNEY J. MEHLMAN...
TIME denies any ribald intention in translating Pliny's phrase as it did, holds that idiomatic sense is more sacred than a literal translation, and a damn sight less harmful...
...Damn your souls! You advertise in a full page ad of TIME, Oct. 11 that you will be on the air tonight at 9 p.m. Having nothing better to do, I dry the dishes and run the vacuum cleaner from 8:30 to 9. I then ascend the stairs to the den and turn on the radio. I check the paper to find out the correct station. I am burned up to discover that you or the Blue Network or some other fiend has again changed the time to 8:30, and I have missed the program...
...More sacred than gold, and a damn sight less harmful...
...skulldruggery about him," has acquired an impressive reputation not only as No. 1 U. S. foreign correspondent but also as the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. Readers of his first novel, One Life, One Kopeck (titled after a Russian proverb meaning "Life is not worth a damn") may feel that Correspondent Duranty has now added to that reputation the right to be called the most official of unofficial Russian novelists. The tale of a peasant boy who rises to the rank of a Red Army commander, One Life, One Kopeck is a fast-moving, dramatic, frankly sympathetic novel...