Word: darnedness
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Cussers' morals do not arouse his respect, admitted Dr. Montague F. Ashley-Montagu of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College last week. But he believes that swearing is darned good physiological therapy. Not so far back, in Psychiatry, he declared:
Letdown. In Des Moines, Iowa, an eight-year-old Superman fan, James Henderson, put on a Superman suit, jumped off the second-story landing and crashed. Said he, with a sprained ankle, "The darned thing wouldn't work."
> Whatever is done by compulsion or persuasion will shake U.S. living habits. More women in the war effort means fewer women in the home-as wives, daughters or servants; it means eating more meals out, fewer socks darned, fewer guests entertained at home, and many another change in the American...
But the gosh darned thing won't go that far.
Dan Beard felt like that for the next 80 years. He became a civil engineer, surveyor, map worker. Then he sold one of his fish drawings for $25. (Said Dan dreamily: ". . . Darned if I'd work any more.") He became a famed illustrator, a Manhattan clubman and after-dinner...