Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with the Michaelmas term at Shawnigan Lake under way, Christopher Lonsdale patted his German Shepherd Judy and pointed a moral: "If I had let Judy run wild and do as she damn wefl pleased as a pup, she'd be a vicious, savage beast today. You can't develop leaders by letting them do as they damn please when they're boys. If nothing else, we're training boys to be less obnoxious...
...even been a suicide. Perhaps. . . . In his last 20 minutes, Playwright Priestley has a high old time perhapsing. Unfortunately, he has been prosing for so long before that his last-minute fireworks cannot save the play as a whole from seeming tedious. They can only, in fact, rather double-damn it as trivial...
...when the crew was not rowing up to par, he let forth a yolley of curses at them. "I was one of those Puritanical, goody-goody Boston boys," he recounts, so the crew had never before heard him swear, and Charles Francis Adams, the stroke, turned around and said, "Damn it, Woody. How in Hell can we row if you swear...
...small voice in the corner mentioned that Wally Flynn and Jack Guidera were playing fullback and a chorus of voices with four days of intersectional indoctrination chorused, "Man, ah reckon you're crazier 'on some of them damn Yankees." The hysteria set in again...
Rooming houses and likker stores were all sold out last Christmas and Friday night found the city's trees decorated in a Confederate flag motif. From many of these same trees hung nooses and signs saying, "For the first Damn Yankee who touches this flag...