Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refuse to talk to one another when the whole world is trying to get to gether. You can't get together with a man by throwing stones at him. I'd talk to the Devil himself if I thought there was a chance of making hell cooler. These few fierce local troubles will seem to the rest of the country like some one blowing a fire siren in the midst of a symphony concert!" After his speech General Johnson was invited to take the coal strike into his busy hands, try to settle it before it swept...
...failed dismally to check industrial violence. Last November Democrat Thomas Courtney, a young two-fisted "reformer," beat State's Attorney Swanson for his job by a thumping majority. The Cook County Democratic machine was not overjoyed at its own man's victory; it feared he would "raise hell with the status quo." That was precisely what...
...Coast" was once more the wide-open, hell-roaring district which it had been and which it continued to be until 1913, under the beneficent eyes of city administrations either corrupt or actually proud of San Francisco's reputation as "the Paris of America." No sailor, cattleman or fun-seeking hometowner who set foot in a Pacific Street dive had a chance of getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff...
Sirs: Shocked at first that you should run the degenerate face of Trumpet Blower Goebbels on your cover, which I regard as a place of honor, I was going to raise a bit of hell with you. But recalling that you ran Al Capone inthe same space some time ago I saw the fitness of things and congratulate you. After all Germany is in the hands of gangsters right now and Goebbels is their blaring brass. OSCAR LEONARD Ridgefield, Conn. To Subscriber Leonard, praise for able association of ideas...
...around the world. But two months later the Black Hawk fetched up on a sandbar off Cat Island, in the Bahamas, and Skipper Joan went back to Manhattan to raise $300. With $1,000 and Count Ilya Tolstoy as a deckhand, undaunted Adventuress Lowell set off again. Said she: "Hell, yes, we're going on-rHit on around Cape Horn...