Word: damns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slightest concerned about...the committee going before the Regional Labor Board, but I will make it quite nervous for quite a number of the Ledger chapter personnel if the thing ever reaches that point. You can go to all the regional boards you damn please but you will get no relief from the Ledger until you come to me personally...
...Orleans Senator Long joyfully cried: "The only way for us to get out of this Depression is to secede from the United States. . . . We ain't going to get any place until we get rid of all those damn bureaucrats, hobocrats, autocrats and all those other crats up there in Washington. . . . Oh, it'll take us five or six years, I reckon, but we'll set up a real Utopia in this State. We've got to run our own business and not have any of those dam fol-de-rols that's going...
...story. . . . There is a sort of journalistic legend that I am a person of boundless enthusiasm and energy. Nothing could be further from the reality. For all my desire to be interested I have to confess that for most things and people I don't care a damn. Writing numbers of books and articles is evidence not of energy but of sedentary habits." He speaks gratefully of "the pleasures, the very real pleasures, of vanity." He regards himself in the same breath as normal: "I am being my own rabbit because I find no other specimen so convenient for dissection...
...Commerce, Clipper Bilbo pricked up his large ears. When he learned that Dr. Thorp had once registered as a Republican while at Amherst, he dropped his shears and paste, scuttled back to Mississippi with the news that Senator Stephens was about to give a $9,000 job to a "damn Yankee" Republican. Pulling on his red campaign necktie, adjusting his diamond stickpin and purchasing the oldest and most dilapidated car he could find, Theodore Bilbo began to stump the State for Senator Stephens...
...says, the character would seem incredible and false. What principally puzzles him is why so many critics have called his stories "competent." Says he: "There is evidently something that a number of people do not like in my stories and it is this they try to express when they damn them with the faint praise of competence. I have a notion that it is the definiteness of their form. . . . My prepossessions in the arts are on the side of law and order. I like a story that fits. ... I am not unaware of the disadvantages of this method. It gives...