Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked him for an interview. Mr. Tilden must have been pretty hard up for ideas because he made some amazing statements. "Yale," he declared, "is my favorite college because it is the perfect balance between the 'rah-rah' over-grown prep-school attitude of Princeton and the pseudo, 'to-hell-with-everything' attitude of Harvard." Having gotten off to a rousing start, he reached a dramatic climax with the statement, "Right now I would be willing to bet that Lawrenceville could beat Yale. Harvard, or Princeton in tennis. This can be attributed chiefly to lack of proper coaching and playing...
More than 200 bills started their way toward the purgatory of committees and the hell of oblivion in the House last week. Well did its 432 members know that all the session's important legislation would originate not in Congress but at the White House, whence would come, week by week, the order of business. Nevertheless, tradition dictated a simulacrum of consequential activity...
...line Radical, it is his proudest boast that he is the only U. S. cartoonist ever to be tried for sedition as a result of his pacifist pictures in the old Masses during the War. (Two jury disagreements resulted in a mistrial.) "Art" Young has two predilections, Hell and trees. His interest in Hell started as a boy when he used to pore over the family copy of Dore's Dante. . His first book of infernal drawings, Hell Up to Date was published in 1892. Another followed in 1901. A third appeared last week.* All these depict the plight...
...Underbill fled from the house, fell once, disappeared. He was found at dawn, bleeding from back, neck, leg, arm, in a bed in a furniture store into which he had broken. "I don't think I can live," moaned the Tri-State Terror. "I'm shot to hell. They hit me five times. I counted them as they...
Back we go to the good old days of the world war to discover that one man believed that war was hell and that men were like the rats in Norway which swam to sea and drowned. It is a very interesting, indeed a charming plot. Richard Dix is the virile young humanitarian who hates fighting, but he loves a simple lass who tells him that he is as yellow as yellow chalk. Therefore, he enlists, and we next see him mingling with a group of neurasthenic aviators over there. Once in the war, Rocky Thorne becomes a cruel killer...