Word: darn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fooled. He stood coking at us for a moment with just the trace of a smile at the corners of his mouth, hen shut the door and left. Soon he came jack alone and said: "Thee will please be in my office after Assembly tomorrow." He knew darn well that two boys [like us] would never normally be cracking a Latin book on Sunday morning. But he wouldn't ive us away to the shed owner...
Reached last night, sports columnists Jerry Nason of the Boston Globe and Bill Grimes of the Record stated that their pens are cocked for Garrison, Brown, and the A.H.A. As for Garrison, Nason dubbed him the victim of being "too darn nice." His move to ease the minds of his hard-working cohorts pitched him into the middle of a storm of roaring prides, according to the sports analyst...
Wearing kilts instead of blackface, Larry Parks is a Scotsman here, returning to his ancestral clan. Clans aren't worth a darn unless they're a-feudin' and pretty soon another clan turns up with plaids and tempers that clash with Parks' outfit. After a couple of deep technicolor breaths of the sky (blue) the trappings (scarlet) and the lochs (emerald) the picture settles down to conversation (colorless, but strongly accented). The time has come to stop looking and listen. Clan wars are futile, says the hero sand because his bonny one belongs to the other clan, the time...
...combination of those superb scenes and a few other high points of dance specialist Kathryn Lee, however, with the usual quota of R & H songs beginning "When a fella ..." "It's a Darn Nice Campus," or "Come home, son, come home," is a little hard to take. The humor is in many places stale--the bewildered freshman was done last year in "Barefoot Boy," for example, and the childhood romance and the rocking chairs of the first set were new in "Our Town." Dead characters moon about the stage in a horrid reminder of "Carousel," and Rodger's brasses blast...
...Architects: "It looks like a sandwich on edge and a couple of freight cars. . . . I fail to see how an office building that narrow can be efficiently done." Engineer Max Foley, president of the New York Building Congress, was a little kinder. "There must be something in that darn thing," said he, "that I don't understand...