Word: darnedest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday Evening Post, oldest U.S. magazine, last week helped its brother celebrate, a birthday. The juvenile monthly Jack and Jill was ten years old. Rummaging through Jack and Jill's letters column (it draws 18,000 letters a year), the Post collected a piece on "Kids Believe the Darnedest Things." Some of the things they believe: that bird dogs fly, that "juvenile" means bad and "delinquent" means children, that Lincoln's address was Gettysburg, that when it rains it rains all over, and that radios are inhabited by entertaining little people who ought to be applauded and occasionally...
...cars were being handmade. In the light of this, Joe Frazer's prediction that K-F would make 2,500 cars in August seemed highly optimistic. Nevertheless, none could say that Joe and Henry, with plenty of help from son Edgar Kaiser, weren't doing their darnedest to make cars...
Beck does not talk prices. Instead he writes a chatter column, fictionalizing the personalities of the shopkeepers. ("The Grist Mill ... the darnedest bust you ever heard of ... is operated by a sad-eyed, spanielesque woman named Cora.") Sample treatment : "The trouble is that whenever we advertise something-demmit, people come in and buy it. And then we're out of that too. So today we have scoured the Farmers Market in search of something that nobody could ever have any use for ... and B-ruther-r-r we have found it. Eureka! . . . down at Manny Vezie's Gallery...