Word: damns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conversation. No one is likely to tell you that you've got to get in there and give your all to help old Dunster win that old athletic trophy, though there are those who do care about athletic trophies. You are never embarrassed because you don't give a damn whether Dunster wins that old athletic trophy or not. It is a matter of considerable pride with us that there is no artificially stimulated House spirit of any sort whatsoever...
...Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans," blazed Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling at 1,000 conservationists gathered in St. Louis last week, "know a damn thing about conservation." The conservationists were there because "Ding" wanted them to be, and ''Ding" wanted them there because he was still burning with anger and purpose. From March 1934 until November 1935 he had sat in Washington as chief of the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey, pleading for funds to save U. S. wildlife, meeting with bland indifference or red tape on every side (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et seq.). Politicians...
...from any barren dialectic exercises undertaken for their own sake and from any wanton quoting of the Marxist fathers and saints. It is one of the outstanding virtues of the book that it proves its points not by citing the prophets but by allowing capitalists, statesmen, and theorists to damn themselves out of their own mouths. If it had no other value this book would still be justified by the inane, blind and cruel remarks it gathers together from the speeches and writings of the contemporary great...
Most vital to the life of both new periodicals is a solution to the problem of contributions. With two well entrenched magazines already on the seen prepared to swallow available talent, with the traditional "don't-give-a-damn" attitude of Harvard men to combat, the enthusiasts of tonight will face a discouraging morning after. Whether heirs to a new venture like the "Monthly" can be found is a matter of grave doubt. Meantime, the established periodicals will put up a spirited fight for existence...
...meaning which the play may carry is to be found in the line spoken by Ann Holt, bored daughter of the nouveauriche T. Roger Holt: "Damn a social system which produces rich fathers, smug mothers, droopy sons, and finished daughters." This of course is pretty sweeping; the Country Club set should feel thoroughly chagrined. But then the affair wanders back into comedy pure and romantic in fact these often charming and often rather bewildering oscillations between comedy and comment set the tone of "Life's a Villain." In the long run it's the plot that counts. The author...