Word: hell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court I don't blame you. How in hell do you think we can keep New Jersey on the map with you birds talking this way? Put some sex in it. Where's the Hog Lady...
...gentle, invalid age is referred to in a letter: "Now the tally with my wife in backgammon stands thus: she, poor creature, has won only 2,490 games while I have won, hurrah, hurrah, 2.795 games!" A pious country Woman, on hearing that he would go to hell for his beliefs, replied: "God Almighty can't afford to do without so good...
...Better a government run like hell by the Filipinos than one run like heaven by the Americans" is the saying attributed to Manuel Quezon. President of the Philippine Senate and leader of the independence movement in those islands...
...think and do in the future. The research which absorbed his life, the obsession with hypothesis and demonstration that robbed him of everything but the passion for work, exploded the dream of Genesis so that we now dismiss it as folklore or, more mincingly, as allegory. God, Heaven and Hell were stripped of reality and are now only bloodless metaphysical abstractions to very orthodox people. Whether the Darwinian form of biological theory is ever fully demonstrated or not, says Mr. Bradford, never again will special and immutable creation be found in the mental tool-chests of thinking men. And what...
...recalls the wistful ambition of Nanette--of "No, No, Nanette,"--all she wanted but that most deariy was "to raise a little hell". Similarly with the passengers of the Ryndam. It is extremely difficult to be collegiate when one's activities are confined to the decks of a ship; young and adventurous souls crave wider spheres, no doubt feeling that they are capable of bigger and better things. Therefore the ports visited along the primrose path to higher education an not only opportunities to examine bizarre architectures and to pass off foreign language requirements; they are to be compared with...