Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conchita Sepulveda Pignatelli, society writer of the Los Angeles Examiner. Their host eats heartily (favorite delicacies: cracked crab, pheasant or duck just barely heated), and keeps the table talk on a high plane. Risque stories are out; Hearst recently reprimanded a woman guest who cut loose with a mild "damn." Every night the inevitable movie begins at 11, and bedtime...
...enthusiastic doctor-delegate cried: "Say, this is a damn sight more important than some of the scientific papers." The big hit at a recent Pittsburgh convention of the American Academy of Pediatrics was a new kind of nursing bottle-a plastic job that seems to eliminate a few of the nuisances of baby-raising, including burps and constant bottle-boiling. The new bottle comes already sterilized, feeds the baby his milk without air, can be thrown away after one feeding...
Colorful Cabinet. Even so, there were many who were not amused. Prudish Lewis Carroll found the expression "Damn me!" in H.M.S. Pinafore "sad beyond words," and Queen Victoria decided that what was sauce for the Emperor of Japan in The Mikado was a lot too saucy for her in Utopia, Limited (an almost forgotten G. & S. opera in which members of the British Cabinet were portrayed as blackface minstrels). Certain noble ladies forbore to confess with the mercenary Duchess in The Gondoliers...
George Burns & Gracie Allen passed their 15th radio anniversary. George thought he knew why they have lasted so long: "People get smarter and so do we. . . . Every comedian usually thinks the whole world depends on each joke. . . . Actually the world doesn't give a damn [so] now we concentrate on overall effect. It makes us feel better and . . . you've got to be fluid in this business. You've got to get like jelly...
...manners and morals change. Today, the public expects damn and not darn when the hero mans damn. And the Johnson Office, carrying forward the late Hays Office white mantle of purity, has eased up along the line, permitting an occasional breath of life to creep into a picture. Unfortunately, Girl Scouts and ex-ward bosses have crawled back into the censorship field and take pot shots at anything coming out of Hollywood in a two piece bathing suit. Significantly, the old adage about the cure being worse than the disease applies here. Witness "Duel in the Sun." Selnick's horse...