Word: hell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington Athletic Club, and on the next afternoon the University, will meet the club team, which is one of the best in the south. That evening the team will be entertained with a dinner and dance at the club. They will return on the Sunday morning train via the Hell Gate...
Another good chorus girl, hell-bent for Society. It is a gay, lively; and unimportant play, combining some features of "Easy Virtue" and the "Vanities...
...comment is bold and unrelieved. In discussing broadly the question of American worship of size and narrowly the growth of our large cities, he speaks of the commuter who "spends his half hour not in healthy exercise but in hurtling through the bowels of the earth in a little hell of ugliness and stuffiness and racket and overcrowding". Only in a few scattered phrases does he succeed in such apt description, while more nauseating metaphors such as "the toothaches and pimples of our spiritual experiences" abound...
...Countess" which compensate for lack of fresh material. In the first place there is the Countess herself, Madame de Lamouderie, who bears the distinction of being the most despicable character in the story and also the most interesting. In contrast to the other people, all of whom are hell bent for self sacrifice, she is delightful--which is probably what Mrs. de Selincourt intended her to be, thus allowing gentility to defeat villainy...
...snow is coming so what the hell...