Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading editorial dubs the middle class "over-stuffed" and also "vast, characterless, and self-satisfied." Another of the editors denounces Walter Lippmann as "no more nor less than the Brisbane of the intelligentsia," intimating that he too has become excessively middle-class. The author of an article entitled, "Hell and Farewell: The End of Social Democracy," pays his respects to contemporary Fascism, which he excoriates, having first branded it as "a middle-class movement." Despite the animadversions against the middle class, it would not be strictly accurate to classify this issue of "The Harvard Critic" as proletarian polemical literature, since...
Former Vice President Dawes by characterizing the Chicago school teachers as "troublemakers" when they recently conducted riots in demand for back pay, has very adequately described the situation; and his shout, "to hell with them" shows quite as fully the attitude which has been and will continue to be taken to such demands...
...give up more than they would now. There is not going to be misery in this State if I can humanly prevent it. . . Unless the Federal and State governments act to insure against recurrence of the present situation, I hope the present system of government goes right down to hell...
...York's State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Like his predecessor. Commissioner Bolan answered the recruiting call of Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt in 1896, has come up steadily from the ranks. He got his first promotion (to sergeant) in 1901 when he jumped from a ferryboat into Hell Gate Channel, rescued two drowning men. During his ten-year supervision of Manhattan's theatre district, Broadway has called him its "toughest" inspector, "so straight he bends over backward...
...have to give up at the first matinee. In the hush that falls before his act, the crackle of a peanut shell shakes the air like a splintered plank. Asked what he thinks about during his twice-daily moment of congealed concentration, he says: "I think what a hell of a responsibility...