Word: hell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What the hell is the church doing out here...
...office. They posed him in half a dozen positions, ordered him this way and that. In silence he bore their directions. Finally one cameraman called out, "Please write something on a piece of paper, Mr. Secretary." He wrote. The cameras clicked. On the paper were the words: "This is hell. C.F. Adams...
...Bill! How's things? Saving this place? Yeah, I don't eat much at noon. Look out--sorry...Well, why the hell don't you look where you're going? Oh...Jees, look at my sleeve. Chocolate milk all over it. Sure, I do. The litle shrimp sits in front of me in French. I'll joggle his chair, absentminded, tomorrow. Yeh, we got an exam. You can drive a guy nuts that way. You can drive a guy--sure, it does. Just scrape...
...begat "Jack"-the present "J. Pierpont Morgan" (as he signs himself with nice filial deference). When introduced as "Mr. Morgan" at a recent smoker of his Harvard class of '89, he promptly cried: "Oh Hell, call me Jack!" Of course only his closest intimates and partners ever do. In common converse with the public a partner of the House of Morgan avoids mentioning his colleagues by any name or nickname. "One of our partners in Philadelphia" is supposed to be a designation so august that it would be fiscal sacrilege to ask "Which...
...suggested .that The Nation was too solemn, and that its editor, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, ought to be taken to a night club occasionally, and shot full of synthetic hell...