Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beside wirelesses to hear the 7 a.m. news report of the Battle of Adelaide. A blue-faced cabby with frosted eyebrows said to a chum: "We didn't ought to have sent them." In a swank Pall Mall club, an elderly gentle man turned from the ticker mumbling: "Damn bad luck." All England knew and feared the name of Australia's great batsman, a wiry stockbroker, Don Bradman. With his help, last week, the Australian eleven held the British to a draw. The Australians had already won two and tied one, so (though there was a fifth match...
...Wheaten Damn we will!! Richard W. Burke '49. Bernard A. Edison '49. Hartly Fleischmann '49. Andrew Marvell...
...damn the old with comments suide...
...learn-it-quick. Everyone wants to learn all the tricks of everything he does, all the angles. Every professional writer feels the pressure this vicious, evil society imposes. But in watercolor painting I don't feel that. I can relax. I am an amateur, and I can damn well produce something on which $100,000 doesn't hinge. I paint for two reasons: to cultivate my innocence and to cultivate my ignorance...
Odets averages one to five hours a picture, working late at night in his cellar, hopes for technical "accidents" because "accidents are very important. They can result in some damn good works. And a 'loose' amateur can sometimes have one." As in writing, he begins not with a mental image but with an idea. "Last week," Odets explains, "I heard a piece by Bach called Sheep May Safely Graze, so I painted a picture showing sheep safely grazing. It's as simple as that...