Word: darnedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WATS. The female uniform most often seen tramping about the British countryside is the khaki of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (tunic, skirt, a cap that has upfolded ear-protecting flaps). Formed in 1938, the WATS are a revival of War I's Women's Army...
Turned down at Annapolis because of a crooked trigger finger, Dan became a civil engineer, spent the next five years getting in & out of trouble as a map maker for insurance companies through the South. When he went to Manhattan in 1878, sold a water color of a fish for...
Everything is quiet and hot. Figures across the street are walking leisurely. The leaves are still. There's no ripple on the grass. The sun is hot on the pavement. Men are wearing white shirts. It's summer! Vag eaunters across the Yard admiring the seasonal phenomenon, the gregness, the...
> "Darned is the word the ladies use-or once used-for damned. Don't say darned in pseudo-blasphemy or in poetry, or in regard to mending the socks."
In London, the Almost Modern Order of Purchasers, a 17-year-old society whose 250 members are men "of good repute, who have made a darned stupid mistake or been badly done," met for its semi-annual dinner. Newest member: a patriotic stock-broker who was so carried away during...