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Word: damns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held her fingers up to the judge, said, "You can see I haven't got the kind of nails which scratch." To the officer's accusation that she cursed him, she replied: "I'm sorry about the language but I work with pilots and say 'damn' like an adjective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...last war to abolish all former diplomatic games of seven-toed pete with deuces wild. . . . With smiles and smirks our associates accepted our childish enthusiasms-while they took our money and our lives. . . . We were told we were going to get international decency. Boy, look at the damn thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: No Seven-Toed Pete | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...quail shooting, lively parties, buzzing about, he has sat in both General Assembly and Senate of his State Legislature. For years he rode a motorcycle to the bank every day. Once it got away from him, ripped through his wife's pet flower bed. Evaded he: "Mildred, some damn fool has torn up your flower bed." Said she: "I know who the damn fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Small-Town Banker? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...ball rolling today and his team must score a run sooner or later. Drastic measures may have to be taken if things start breaking badly. If all fails, Kenesaw Mountain Landis should set up the Western Hemisphere Series and conform to the feeling of the times. Let the damn Yankees keep their title and send the Red Sox against Cincinnati in a snow series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TANKS OF THE YANKS | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

...gone highhat. So do the three law suits he is involved in right now for having made himself generally obnoxious, the worst offence being at the Canadian National Exposition when he arrived three hours late, and upon being gently reminded of that fact, said, "You ought to be damn glad I got here at all, you chiseling bastards!" . . . The whole industry's going slightly crazy on the idea of electricity since Leopold Stokowski brought forth the idea of an electric symphony orchestra . . . Everything from individual amplification to bands made up of all-electrical instruments is being tried. Leading the band...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

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