Word: darnedness
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Roared William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, ousted Chicago mayor: "Poli tics? Haven't given it a thought, Bud! I'm learning to loaf for the first time in my life and it's a pretty agreeable pastime, once you get the hang of the darned thing."
Suavely the Mayor replied: "I'll tell you boys nobody is more in sympathy with you than the Mayor and Council of Reading. We're no novices. We know what Capitalism does to the workers and hope that Capitalism will be overthrown. . . . We've kept men on...
On a Danish warship a young man darned his own socks, sewed on his own buttons. The two Empresses did not think much of him, though he was their nephew and a prince. But his cousin Tomboy Maud, against her mother's council, fell in love with him, and...
Although the pseudo-modern reader may shudder to find again in print the picture of the mother of the Gracchi surrounded by her natural jewels, may be amused by the idea that the younger generation is any longer a practical object for the world's concern, Mr. Macy will find...
Grundy: They ought to talk darned small.