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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might go to Hell for it, admitted Major General William Graham Everson, husky, square-jawed Baptist preacher, when he took the job two years ago of Chief of the Militia Bureau of the War Department. But, said he, "I won't be traveling a lonesome road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Militia Man | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...Saturday night she will start her meetings at the Boston Garden, and she has already announced interesting pageants on Heaven and Hell with angels and flames, which will aid in converting the facinorous. "A thousand sinners saved each night would be a good average", she said just before leaving Los Angeles. At the same time Brother Hutten's statement that the meetings will cost about three thousand dollars a night makes one wonder if the price of souls has gone down in proportion with that of living. The plan for a complete "baptistery" on the Common was a stroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SING SOMETHING, SEMPLE | 10/9/1931 | See Source »

...irony, as in the curtain line, after she has convinced her husband that she is not living with another man (which she is) and the husband has mouthed a few platitudes about Faith. Says Babe Gordon: "I used to know a fine poem about Faith. It begins?Oh, Hell! I've forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

Producer Hughes was considered one of the queerest persons in Hollywood when he spent $4,000,000 'On Hell's Angels. He was considered somewhat less queer when the picture's profits showed signs of reaching $2,000,000. His personal income, estimated at $4,000 to $5,000 a day, inherited from his father who invented an oil drill, was further augmented by the takings of The Front Page. Observers familiar with the Hughes determination wondered whether he had really decided to abandon Queer People, wondered why he did not hire a cast of legitimate actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Queer People | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...scenes and an epilog were shown the machinations of Satan (Dancer Shawn) in getting Job (Arthur Moor) to curse God (William Kennedy) for taking from him his family and riches. Though Satan succeeded (as he does not in the Bible story), he was banished by God, driven back to Hell through a gateway which resembled a large dog kennel or a subway entrance. In the epilog Job, old and humble, received homage from his people, settled down for 140 years more of existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: God in a Stadium | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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