Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble was that Evan Evans took Beautee commercials as seriously as "the fifth act of Hamlet.'" "There's no damn difference between soaps," he told Vic frankly. "Except for perfume and color, soap is soap. . . . [The] difference is in the selling and advertising, [and] two things make good advertising. One, a good simple idea. Two, repetition. And by repetition, by God, I mean until the public is so irritated with it, they'll buy your brand because they bloody well can't forget it. All you professional men are scared to death of raping the public...
...definition of the difference between Unitarians and Universalists [is that] the Universalist believes God is too good to damn him, and the Unitarian believes he is too good to be damned...
...damn mad, as one of those people, to hear that accusation over & over again even if you include the Administration and the press in the indictment this time...
...Joseph Ball, wife of Minnesota's young Senator, described her husband's career as a newspaperman: "He was a damn good reporter-Ooops! I shouldn't have said that...
...objective a strong, unified labor movement? No labor leader in U.S. history has split labor into so many parts and hacked off so many splinters. Does he really give a damn for labor? He speaks of labor in sweeping, lofty terms: "I salute the hosts of labor. ..." Labor to him was "18 million stomachs clashing against backbones." A few years later it had become "52 million shrunken bellies." Paunchy Mr. Lewis is haunted by flat stomachs...