Word: damns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will stint applause, or damn with faint praise this much needed measure. Other plans for meeting the situation had been suggested, but probably none would have met with as full a measure of approbation from the student body at large, or from those employed, even though they might have saved Harvard a considerable sum. The single question of the fate of those not cared for by this scheme remains. These positions have been assigned to House residents alone, and there must be a number of men in the graduate schools and undergraduates living, for the sake of economy, in private...
...nursing home, who felt "very bitter" about the Battle of Washington. Major L. J. H. Herwig, U. S. A., retired, of Washington, offered them his 400-acre Virginia farm. On these plots Commander Waters proposed to establish "Khaki Shirts" colonies, warned: "If they try to burn us out again, damn 'em we'll kill 'em." Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, retired, flirted with the idea of consolidating the "Khaki Shirts...
Otherthanthat, you've a damn nice magazine...
...Damn it all, the business of an army is to win the war, not to quibble around with a lot of cheap buying! Hell-and-Maria, we weren't trying to keep a set of books over there! We were trying to win the war. The public reputation of Charles Gates Dawes for profane vehemence originated with this testimony of his, given Feb. 2, 1921 as the A. E. F.'s Chief of Procurement to a Congressional committee investigating War expenditures. A few months later this reputation further expanded when Mr. Dawes, as first Director of the Budget...
...from me, the mass is feeling better! We know a damn sight more about what is going on than those fellows sitting at that security peanut stand in Wall Street. "Yes sir, it's not what you think, not what the peanutters in Wall Street think. Damn it, we're approaching business recovery. Prosperity, sure as the sun, will rise tomorrow morning. . . . But for God's sake, keep politics out of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. We're not giving any money away. We're loaning it on adequate security. We could have political bunk...