Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel Puritan's Progress (1931) Author Train credited U. S. Puritans with having a sense of mirthless humor that is a kind of coal-tar derivative from their "keen scent for the fumes of Hell." In contradistinction to this darkling humor he sets "gaiety, the most comprehensive of virtues, for it signifies faith, hope, charity and courage." In Princess Pro Tern he tosses all four ingredients generously into the potboiler, serves up a book that, whatever its faults...
...what I want whether you like it or not and those that don't can get the hell out of the B. E. F. I'm going to be hardboiled! If any man in the B. E. F. refuses to carry out my orders he will be dragged out of Washington by the military police. To hell with civil law and General Glassford! I'm going to have my orders carried...
...York. Little Halcyon, under the guidance of her governess, a spiritual Mrs. Rosenfeld, soon blossoms into an infant poetess, has her own little sacrosanct blue chair in which she composes "Us on Tip-Toe by the Freckled Beach," and the even more famous "Lines to My Lover in Hell." When Halcyon's father, a hearty retired sea-captain, comes after her he is forced to wait with a delegation of Halcyon's admirers in the anteroom. He determines by hook or crook to get her out of that, takes her off with him to England...
...police won't support us, we'll boot them to Hell!" screamed Herr Edmund Heines, a Fascist member of the German Reichstag speaking at Breslau. "In one month we'll be the police...
...grew taut with apprehension. What would these idle, ragged men, ghosts of the A. E. F., do next? Police Chief Glassford of the District of Columbia suggested giving them Federal lands to till for a living. Commander Waters said they would "dig in for the winter" and stay "till hell freezes." Red agitators began to work within the ranks. Reports were heard that wives with children were on the march to join their husbands at Bonus City. Police officials hoped the B. E. F. would soon start to disintegrate. One general fear was that homeward-bound veterans, hungry, penniless, desperate...