Word: hell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time he was quoted as saying "To Hell with the Constitution" while defending the prohibition of 'divorce in South Carolina. He corrected this quotation: "Seventy-five thousand white men of my State indorsed it as I said it, and here is what I said: 'If the Constitution of my State causes my State to blush and allows her women to be forsaken, then I say to Hell with the Constitution.' We stand alone on this proposition and we are proud of it and we have no apology to make...
...press advocating the election of either Coolidge or Davis terms Senators LaFollette and Wheeler radicals, meaning Anarchists or Reds, as General Hell-and-Maria Dawes, Mr. Coolidge's running mate, terms them. These papers even go so far as to convey the impression that Mr. Dawes was a real General in the World War. He, as a matter of fact,* fought the World War in Evanston, Ill., his home town...
These emotional swings in business sentiment must be rather carefully discounted by the conservative student of affairs. In business, as elsewhere, there is no perfect Heaven nor any utter Hell. The worst situation has some promise in it, while there is always something seriously the matter with every "period of prosperity," even from the beginning. The developments of the past two months are quite generally encouraging, yet common sense is still needed to counterbalance the fervid rhetoric of the revivalist school of business prophets...
...thought we knew fairly well what the expression "reeking with the taint of special privilege" meant, but so long as MR. UNTERMYER contends that we don't know what it means we must content ourselves with saying that it sounded like hell...
...built a National organization, somehow supplied it with funds and courage. A great part of the country never appreciated his spirit. The North-East, especially, looked upon him as another ambitious man, one with displeasing associations, one whose ingenious scheming had made him something to be reckoned with. The hell-bent determination which carried his organization through the crisis when it was disclosed that he was a Doheny lawyer, highly-paid-the spirit which succeeded in weathering that storm-was indeed something to be reckoned with...