Word: damns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete consistency "assumes his own infallibility and will destroy his country if he stays in power." An invitation to him to deliver a Lincoln's Birthday address last winter was promptly withdrawn after a brief statement of his political views. Explained Republican Taft: "They wanted someone who would damn F. D. R. and all his works. I can't and won't, and some of the Republican orators and candidates who do, give me an acute pain in the neck...
...Roosevelt brain trust, they also keep out of the nation's eye. There have been no more public statements from them since Charlie Taft's comment on the summons to revolt which Al Smith & Co. sent to the Democratic Convention: "It means a lot of money, but damn few votes...
...damn fool!" said King Edward, and rode ahead...
...mean she actually picked up a rock and let it go for all she was worth; and it hit me behind the ear. Behind the ear it hit me; and then the little sissy ran. I mean she hid behind the matron's skirts. It's a damn good thing. I mean I was mad would have spanked the little pickanninny's bottom. But the matron was forbidding; I mean she was a big woman. And she was kindly; that is she patted the pickanniny's head; and the little chocolate drop sobbed she was sorry. And my heart softened...
...hell of a lot. The income tax reduced it by about $70,000. If I were to save all that is left and the inevitable should come, the inheritance tax would be applied and I would leave my heirs an estate of something over $12,000. "Now, damn you, am I getting too much?" "But," protested a stockholder, "if you were getting less, you would pay less to the Government." "In other words, if I got nothing I wouldn't have to pay any tax ! " 'Stockholders laughed, allowed that Mr. Avery might not be getting too much...