Word: godammit
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...initial investment ($40,000) promises many a dividend. Crowed a press-agent last week: "There are nearly 2,000 colleges in the country, and most of 'em don't even know yet they can get Margaret Shakesp- godammit, I keep calling her Shakespeare...
...sometimes prefers misquotations. Unnerved after an unexpected mass interview with a dozen reporters in Manhattan's Stork Club, she confided to Columnist Leonard Lyons: "I suffer less when it's only the Times and the Herald Tribune, because then I know that if I should say 'godammit,' they would report that I had said 'good gracious...
...shrewd "Tacho" Somoza might well wonder if the jig were up. For seven years he had been Central America's most genial, least bloodthirsty dictator. But he had made all Nicaragua his racket, with opéra-bouffe trimmings. He had justified his record with a plaintive: "Godammit, I want to make sure that my family has enough to live on after...
...Dictator. So long as he can operate his dictatorship in his unique way, 'Somoza prefers to avoid violence. "I want to treat everybody good," he says. "But if they don't come across, Godammit, they better remember I got an iron fist under my silk glove. I pray to God that the glove never rips...
Disney, Inc. "It was always my ambition to own a swell camera," says Walt Disney, "and now, godammit, I got one. I get a kick just watching the boys operate it, and remembering how I used to have to make 'em out of baling wire." The baling wire period in Walt Disney's life lasted from 1901 to 1930. In 1901 Walt was born in Chicago. His father, Elias, was a contractor, who now lives quietly with Walt's mother in Oregon and hears from his famous son about twice a year. The family moved...