Word: damns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person coming down at trail or a steep hill obviously out of control used to be an object of amazement to the onlookers," he said. "But nowadays, people just look at him disgustedly and class him as a damn fool...
George Washington Hill gives little or no damn whether he gets publicity or whether he doesn't. He knows he is good, doesn't have to be told so, is ready to admit it when asked. His itemized admission of his talent for spectacular advertising- as told in court and revealed by Printers' Ink-last month helped to win a $500,000 law suit. One Arthur R. Griswold had had the impertinence to suggest that Mr. Hill's company had stolen an idea for advertising Lucky Strikes...
...number of trees involved. At his press conference he said she was flimflamming the public to get circulation. Her last word was a cartoon showing a disreputable figure labeled "Flimflam Politics" saying, "All right, so we LIED to you-so what? And we're cutting down your damn CHERRY TREES...
...American letters," while Pound announced: "At last an unprintable book that is fit to read." But when Edmund Wilson wrote that it possessed "a strange amenity of temper and style which bathes the whole composition even when we may find it tiresome or disgusting," Miller wrote an angry reply: "Damn all the critics anyway! The best publicity for a man who has anything to say is silence...
...week a book reviewer commonly reads and meditates five or six books, but an art reviewer often has to view and comment on as many as 40 shows. His hurried kindnesses (Mr. Devree's in particular) are notorious. Since no artist who is worth his salt gives a damn whether he gets a nice "press" or not, this absence of criticism chiefly benefits the art business...