Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each of the twelve stories in Conrad Aiken's latest volume of short stories, "Among the Lost People," is a different application of the above quotation from "Gehenna," the twelfth, which depicts the hell through which the human mind goes to find "consciousness which is pure suffering." The tales are told with an implacable, pseudo-scientific introspectiveness that almost suggests Poe. They are tales of madness, weakness, and failure--of a man half-drunk who succumbs to the temptation to steal some unwanted object is caught, and his life is ruined. ("Impulse"): pathetic souls who laugh insincerely or tell unimportant...
With your "Robin Hood" policeman-killer glorifying article [TIME, May 7.1, the editor or editors of TIME may go to Hell with my compliments. There is no post office in Hell and 1 shall be pleased not to hear from...
...time to become accustomed to such squabbles as last week's. A parallel case in the dramatic award occurred in 1924 when the play jury unanimously selected George Kelly's The Showoff, only to have the general committee give the prize to Hatcher Hughes's Hell-bent for Heaven...
...published a news item to the effect that Thomas Taylor, 67, of Prescott, Ariz., retired superintendent of the United Verde Copper Co., before committing suicide, wrote a will leaving $150,000 to his wife and son, and $10,000 to his daughter, Lillian Taylor Briggs "to go to hell...
...reference to Lillian Taylor Briggs was in error, which TIME greatly regrets. Her father did leave her $10,000 but without any injunction. His bequest to his wife was "enough of money to get her and daughter [a Mrs. D. H. Jones] into Hell as soon as possible. My wife belittled me more than any human being ever did and I hope she and her daughter will pay for it, when they get my money to go to Hell with...