Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said publicity-loving Rev. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner of Broadway Temple: "I love Mayor LaGuardia as I have loved few public officials. . . . But I hate like hell this damnable lottery system, and I'll fight it to the end. . . . The 2,000,000 Protestants in this city don't know how to express themselves, but they will before we get through with this matter...
...coastwise steamer City of Savannah and the freighter Andrea F. Luckenbach, one of whose officers in a small boat grabbed young Phelps, dragged him to safety. Contorted faces appeared at cabin portholes, trapped, staring out from the red-hot plates. Some cursed and raved. In his own little private hell, one man seemed to smile and wave his hand in farewell...
China has never won a modern war, but two years ago in the smoke and flame and searing Hell of Japan's avalanche against Shanghai she whelped a towering hero, General Tsai Ting-kai of the deathless 19th Route Army (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Last week on the Olympic he steamed into Manhattan and Chinatown went wild. Rich merchants had hired a suite for their hero at the tall-towered Waldorf-Astoria. They sent three planes with Chinese pilots roaring down the bay to dip and zoom in welcome. As the Olympic drew in, 4,000 jubilant celestials jammed...
ZION, Ill. (UP).-Wilbur Glen Voliva, religious leader, who says the world is flat, has notified his followers that the world will end Sept. 10. ... He says that those in his colony on Sept. 10 will be saved, that the rest can go to Hell, Editor's Note-The doomed will include all delinquent Item subscribers. Play safe and pay up at once, as we don't want to chase all over Hell after these bills...
...some such light will the man who has made a failure of College regard it in after years. To avoid this experience, he must realize that Harvard is "a Hell of a big country" and that a big country can be an impersonal one. After the cheering sentiments which will be drilled into 1938 continually during its first week here have died away, the Freshman Class will be face to face with this issue. The best weapon is initiative. While neither the Faculty nor the deans are alarming ogres, you must take the first step in opening relations with them...