Word: hell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months, into their skulking solitudes, his committeemen found the narcosan-injected, drug-deprived addicts secretly twitching, gritting teeth, rolling eyes, gripping griped abdomens- all in the usual torments of deprivation. Narcosan did them no good. It was too bad, for curing a dope fiend by standard methods is hell for him. He is given nourishing food while his supply of drug is gradually tapered off. Many a fiend, however, goes through the ordeal. He knows, until he is too poisoned, too besotted, that treatment is fairly quickly over. Its temporary sweaty terrors are preferable to the life-long degradation before...
...editorial, set in double-leads on the Herald's front page. His pen was not as facile or as provoking as his father's, but his imagination was wilder. Somebody told him that the Herald was getting to be a Roman Catholic sheet; immediately a roaring editorial headed "To Hell with the Pope" was written. A wise secretary kept it off the press after Bennett had gone...
...would want young men," said Capt. Robert Bartlett, last week, "tenderfeet, enthusiastic as hell . . . college trained men . . . with their background and enthusiasm they would know what to do when we got there." He was discussing his plan to man a saucer-shaped ship, sail it north of Bering Strait, let it freeze into the ice, then wait three or four years while the ship drifted with the ice floes over the North Pole and down into the Atlantic Ocean...
...TWILIGHT OF THE AMERICAN MIND-Walter B. Pitkin-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). Provocative, logical, but curiously perverted warning against too much education, too thorough eugenics. *A managing editor of the Herald was asked if his office had any list of ''sacred cows." He replied: ''How in hell can I be expected to carry the names of all the members of the Union Club in my mind." *His father died at the same...
...Houseboat on the Styx. Thirty years ago, John Kendrick Bangs wrote stories about a yachting party near Hell. Producer Ned Jakobs thought that these stories deserve to be perpetuated on the stage, with song-&-dancing. That is the purpose of The Houseboat on the Styx, that and moneymaking. Adam, Barnum, Captain Kidd. Sherlock Holmes and Cleopatra; Mrs. Noah, Sappho, Charon, Josephine and Sir Walter Raleigh-all the Bangsian characters come on deck to sing somewhat Gilbertian songs and utter up-to-the-hour Times Squarese. Blanche Ring as Queen Elizabeth shouts, when someone offers her a drink: "Swine...