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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convivially with ship newsgatherers until Senator Connally took him to his cabin and locked him in. Upon the pier Junior Heflin announced: "I want to see Al Smith. My father's got a bug. He's all wrong about Al Smith. . . . My old man will give me hell, but I can't be sticking by him all the time. . . . Papa is a two-gun man. . . ." Escaping Senator Connally's sober supervision, Junior set forth to inspect some of New York's 32,000 speakeasies.- He came to no good, bringing up in a police station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Junior Heflin | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Hell's ringing bells!" shouted a large, exasperated Detroiter last week into his telephone. "I wish the Sun had never heard of Romney or of me either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U.S. ART SHOCK | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...obtaining a telephonic interview, and to George Romney, the 18th Century English cabinet-maker's son who achieved the niceties of Cavendish Square and rivaled Sir Joshua Reynolds as London's favorite painter. Naturally, the Sun had heard of Artist Romney, and quite as naturally of hell's-bellsing Lawrence P. Fisher. The latter is president of Cadillac Motor Co. and next-to-youngest of the six Fisher Brothers who rose from their father's Ohio blacksmithy to dominance in General Motors Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U.S. ART SHOCK | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...ineluctable laws of physics. The Fishers have learned these laws well and by their aid gained gold. But it was quite another world which Brother Lawrence faced last week, a world strange and unaccountably called Art. Upon its vague terrain, he was nonplussed, vexed. That is why he cried, "Hell's ringing bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U.S. ART SHOCK | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...from 6 to 7 a. m. he plays a round on the capital's public links, shooting 110 in straight cautious jabs. At the Washington Zoo Senator Smoot liked to poke around among the birds and animals until Helen, a parrot, told him to "go to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Lion- Tiger-Wolf | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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