Word: damns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damn you, TIME, for your smearing article on that great and scholastic Liberal, Mark Sullivan [TIME, Nov. 18]. Did it. ever occur to your smart-alec brood of newsquacks to bother to define what true American liberalism is? Here's a challenge...
Above all, don't save. Don't invest. There is too damn much of that in this country. What we need is spending, consumption; nothing would give so much employment as a good fire. If you don't think so, you have no social feeling, no faith, no sympathy, no Co-operation...
...Tokyo last week the Imperial Government banned as "detrimental to public peace" three of the best modern U. S. books on Japan, all written by authors who strive to be objective and praise Japan quite as often as they damn her. Excerpts from the books banned: Challenge: Behind the Face of Japan by Upton Close (Farrar & Rinehart, $3): "Perhaps the most amusing of Japan's new industries is the reproduction of old American heirlooms-New England furniture and such. ... It is as hard for our diplomats to converse with the Japanese foreign office as for a man to argue...
...wife struck him as distinctly unrealistic, overemotional, inefficient and certainly not a good executive type. Father thought of Heaven in terms of a good club; he snorted with exasperation when he took his troubles to God, and sometimes shock his fist and roared, "I say have mercy, damn it!" Although God and My Father had value as a recapture of middle-class religious beliefs and customs in New York's 1890's, readers were more interested in the brief, incidental provocative glimpses of the Day household, the rou-tine domestic crises, the wifely art with which...
...wife struck him as distinctly unrealistic, overemotional, inefficient and certainly not a good executive type. Father thought of Heaven in terms of a good club; he snorted with exasperation when he took his troubles to God, and sometimes shock his fist and roared, "I say have mercy, damn it!" Although God and My Father had value as a recapture of middle-class religious beliefs and customs in New York's 1890's, readers were more interested in the brief, incidental provocative glimpses of the Day household, the rou-tine domestic crises, the wifely art with which...