Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME accuses me of "leaning over backward so far," apropos of the royal wedding rumours, that I "reached almost from Buckingham Palace to Billingsgate." This apparently refers to my statement that I did not (as you quote it) "care a damn" if Prince Philip married Princess Elizabeth. This comment is unfair to Billingsgate and to me. In so far as Billingsgate fish-market porters use oaths at all, they use far richer ones than "damn." And I did not, in fact, write "damn" but "dam," thus indicating that I accepted a possibly outmoded (1877) but attractive derivation of the phrase...
Wearing his famous broad-billed cap, perched on a high stool on the flag bridge facing aft ("only a damn fool faces into the wind"), Mitscher directed the mightiest naval unit in history in a soft, flat monotone that belied the compressed fury with which he fought. He was never known to get excited, even when Kamikaze flyers almost literally blew him off the flagships Bunker Hill and Enterprise...
Before the Taft Committee came an expert witness: 56-year-old Dr. Leo Wolman, professor of economics at Columbia University, onetime adviser to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, a longtime student of trade unionism whose practical and independent views have caused labor to damn him more than once. What kind of a future did Wolman see under present labor laws...
...artists' bullpen on Madison Avenue, where Alfred Gerald Caplin (now Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner) was also fenced in, Caniff launched a "kid strip" called Dickie Dare. A.P. artists got $60 to $85 a week and the greenest hand had to block out "the damn crossword puzzles." "They wouldn't even tell us how many papers were using our stuff," Caniff complains. "They were afraid we'd get big ideas...
...only one taboo left-homosexuality-and he's playing with the idea of dropping that. He claims that "name" writers don't mean a thing to him ("I don't give a damn who writes a story"), disclaims any special knowledge of female psychology except what he absorbs through his pores. "But why should they prefer boy-meets-girl-on-bus stories when they know damn well they didn't meet their own husbands that...