Word: hell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blanche Bates: "While I was acting at the Broad Street Theatre in Philadelphia a fire panic almost started. Said I to the audience: ' There's no fire in this theatre, and what the hell would you do if there were ? Hold up your hands, all who are going to stay.' And they held them...
...crew; and as for the system of control, when we see a really big man, who can manage the situation, and keep all the "parlor oarsmen" in hand, let's grab him. But until we find him patience and confidence! DENISON B. Hell...
...same. Both societies seek a return to conditions once considered normal,--which may never be normal again. Influences which even General Dawes is powerless to control are forcing America as well as Europe to gradual changes of external policy, to revisions of government, to paternalism rather than individualism. "Hell and Maria" has put his back against a steam roller; but he will have plenty of assistants. The surviving individualists are preparing for a finish-fight, and if their methods are sometimes quaint, their cause is no less worthy of support...
...election resembled nothing so much as a good old London bargain sale. In swaying, hysterical lines the remnants of their tempers until nerves sustained by peppermints and Pomeranians could stand it no longer. The line cracked and broke and in a few seconds the splendid hall seethed like hell's own kitchen. The few police were power-less-what could mere men do? More were hurried to the spot without effect, until finally firemen were appealed to to quiet burning Scotland, and with a double cordon of the sterner sex-firmly established, the election continued to its end when...
...forever drive slaves on a tyrant's terms in the Republic of the United States. He does poorly to fling his brutal taunt into the faces of American manhood. The late George Baer once said that captains of industry were God's trustees. General Bell once said: ' To hell with the Constitution.' Mr. Vauclain seems to have combined their formulas...