Word: hell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Heflin's flat anti-Smith declaration was saved up until last week at Dothan, Ala., a town with a newspaper (the Eagle) which has said: "Oh Heflin . . . Oh Hell!" Cried the Senator, "I will vote against Al Smith, so help me God!" and exhausted most of his time with his well-known Anti-Catholic tirade...
...Pennsy terminal at Manhattan is also electrified. Steam trains cannot linger underground in the tunnels that Manhattan traffic necessitates. So from Hell Gate, where the Pennsylvania connects with New England lines, to Manhattan Transfer in New Jersey, where steam locomotives replace electric ones for the long Pennsylvania hauls south and west, and to Long Island City where the Pennsy's Long Island trains change from electricity to steam-within all that great triangle electric locomotives haul the cars. For the same reason at Manhattan the New York Central hauls its trains by electricity to Harmon and the New York...
Lloyd George-"stated clearly that the time had come to decide whether to have a 'hell-peace' or a 'heaven-peace...
...names "Old Gimlet Eye'' and "Hell Devil Darling" are Marine Corps synonyms for Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler. So admirable has been his policing of Tientsin, during the Chinese Civil War (TIME, June 25 et ante), that last week he received a supreme honor from grateful China, an honor which a Chinese town or city can confer only with the unanimous consent of every citizen...
...seizes an old and whining clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue apartment. It soon becomes apparent that John Jones is not happy-one doubts that he could be happy under any conditions. His children (with one exception) go to various types of metropolitan hell. Meanwhile, Author Pollock denounces night clubs, politicians, newspaper owners, Algonquinesque writers, Wall Street, society. It is all very bitter; but there is action, noise and color, settings by Robert Edmond Jones, staccato staging by Richard Boleslavsky. These first two acts are the outstanding curiosity of the current Manhattan season...