Word: hell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then (so the story goes), Senator Borah's smile vanished. "What the hell is the matter with you?" he cried. "Have you all gone crazy? I don't know much about politics, but evidently I know a thousand times more than Hoover! What do you want to do, crucify us all in November...
...Hoover nomination, but after it had been conceded, Candidate Curtis had said: "If some of the gentlemen from the East had had a little more backbone we might have had a ticket that the whole party would have been proud of. ... I would not give three whoops in hell for the man who only goes along with the tide. I wish . . . we would not have to listen to Vare of Philadelphia name the Republican nominee...
...trial for witchcraft (Increase Mather and many another divine officiating), an old medicine woman swears this pirate who so cleverly duped Doll with his talk of Hell, was none other than her earthly son. Doll of course denies his earthliness, swears it is carnal knowledge of a fiend she has, and convicts herself of her witchcraft...
...punish Editor Dean for maligning People's Choice Lake. Editor Dean stood in the doorway of his home with an automatic shotgun, informed the mob that he would shoot dead the first man who stepped on his porch. "You scoundrels, get out of here and go to hell," said Editor Dean. They went to the plant of the Daily Herald; but the employees of Editor Dean kept them away from the presses with loaded revolvers. They hung crepe on the door of the Daily Herald's offices, then sheepishly went home to sleep...
...birds want to know that Harvard didn't teach you, just get it off your chests and I'll try to wise you up. . . . You boys look all right to me. Talking straight, I hope you like me. Still, if you don't, what the hell! You don't vote in Newburyport, anyway...