Word: damns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given the freedom of Salamanca, but kept getting into trouble because of red wine rather than Red ideology. The city just could not get rid of him. Once, just before he was to be exchanged back to the Loyalists, he announced publicly: "I don't give a damn about a cause. I'm fighting for money." The Loyalists took someone else. And ever since, Harold E. Dahl has been Peck's Bad Boy in Salamanca. Reason why he stays where he is definitely unwanted: he is even more definitely wanted in Los Angeles on charges of having...
...numbers" racket.† More significant was a probation report published the same day. In detailing the life & works of Convict Jimmy Hines, 62, with data gathered from Hines's family, friends, neighbors, District Attorney's office and Hines himself, the report gave ordinary citizens who often damn but seldom understand political bosses, a first-rate picture of how such bosses grow, what makes them tick, how they can go wrong. Hines highlights and shadows...
...appeared in its uncut form, promising to be another best-seller of the stature of The Late George Apley. Comparison of the two versions showed that the Post's seven installments accented Brill foibles, heightened the picturesqueness of the story, diluted its satire, toned down the dialogue ("so damn screwy" to "so queer"), cut out Narrator Calder's cynical reflections on love ("all lovers are consummate bores"), on writing popular fiction for the big magazines ("a somewhat ghastly parody on life"), blotted out one character (the narrator's mistress) entirely. All told, Literary Agent Carl Brandt...
Soon enough lawnmowers will fly, and streets will be dry, and people will again start giving a damn whether they live...
...Before the House committee he declared his belief that a $50,000,000,000 debt would be perfectly safe. Before the Senate committee he cited the continued demand for U. S. bonds as proof that the Federal credit has not been undermined. Senator Glass rasped, "You have maneuvered the damn thing to where they have to take your securities to protect the ones they have already...