Word: hell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When one thinks of the myriad thousands of noble men and women who have died unbaptized, and reflects on the unkindly creed that would for that reason alone, consign them to an endless hell, the words of Laertes come forcibly to mind...
...Bishop of Chicago: "My great-grandfather was taught alcohol was a food, my grandfather was taught it was a beverage, my father was taught it was a stimulant, but I was taught alcohol was a poison. It is time we taught our children that intoxicating liquor was born in Hell and we mean to keep it there...
...Juan is discovered on the brink of Hell; he obtains from the Devil ten years' respite; and is finally seen as the ten years end. The Devil brings back to damn him the 1,003 women whom he deceived in life...
...Brickley tore off sixty yards and kicked a goal as well: Eddie Mahan went around the end and gave the Elis hell: O'Brein pasted Rafferty, assisted by Mike Shea: Kilpatric fook Tom Shevlin's place and messed...
...parentage in El Paso, Tex., pours gentle, drawling scorn upon the romanticism with which Zane Greys and Harold Bell Wrights have invested the early inhabitants of the Southwest, and upon the paunchy, pasty-faced commercialism of the present inhabitants. Mock modest, feignedly casual, like a hoary old hell-raiser talking to his grandchildren, he draws upon his indiscriminate youth for gory chunks of six-gun realism quite as studied as that of the Covered Wagon or U. P. Trails he so vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like John Selman, who resented any one else killing...