Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...damn near ruined...
Intelligent criticism of Mr. Wallace's statements is customarily a scarce commodity. His opponents damn him wholly, and his admirers praise him indiscriminately. Where a man generates such violent repulsion or attraction, it is difficult to discover a sizable number of appraisers who are able to seek out the undeniable merit in his position and at the same time criticize and reject what is impractical or undesirable. The press has been of little help to fair minded critics. All too often Mr. Wallace is portrayed as all good...
...Branch Rickey had foreseen, if Jackie played good baseball, the rest took care of itself. Some of the southerners on the squad shared the attitude of an Atlanta newsman who, when asked what he thought of Jackie Robinson, replied "He's good, damn him." But they were ready to back any player, black or white, who might help bring them the bonus (about $6,000 for winners, $4,000 for losers) that each gets for playing in a World Series...
...soles of her high-button shoes and proceeded to make the show presentable enough for her charges. This literary vacuum cleaning nullities the famous closing line in which father informs the local policeman that, "I am going to be baptized,"--a rather flatly received statement without the ensuing "Damn...
...weaknesses and strengths of his fellow professionals than a doctor or a lawyer has." But in The Torrents of Spring, Ernest Hemingway wrote: " 'Further beyond there would be Indianapolis, Indiana where Booth Tarkington lived. He had the wrong dope, that fellow.' . . . 'Nobody had any damn business to write about it [war], though, that didn't at least know about it from hearsay. Like this American writer Willa Cather who wrote a book about the war where all the last part of it was taken from the action in the Birth of a Nation.' " The Torrents...