Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...erect, patrician bearing of Samuel Augustus. But the only one whose name & fame are national is a startling, stubby exhibitionist with the appearance of an agitated bullfrog. He does not glory in his full name, Fontaine Maury-Maverick, but in his War record, his intellectual honesty and in the hell he raised for four years in Washington as first Representative from Texas' new 20th District. It was his boast that he never cast a sectional vote, that he out-dealt the New Dealers, that he typified the rising political leadership of the new industrial South, Democratic, of course...
...America, slop-slopping along the streets with not only their toes out, but their heels out too. ... I won't be a bit surprised if, some day, they just walk right out on you and shellac their soles and put bells on their toes and say, 'To hell with shoes!!' . . . All this makes me very...
With Congress hell-bent to carve up the national budget, Federal Arts projects have come in for more than their share of epithets. "Useless," "extravagant," and myriads of other Republican, battle cries are heard. 210 Harvard Faculty members have risen in protest against this attack, vehemently defending Federal Arts on the ground that "a democratic government can assure its citizens a freedom of life, of enterprise, and of access to the arts of civilization such as no other government can or will assure them." They protest against the stifling of this "freedom of access" by distorted Congressional "economy...
...over his old stamping ground at first base, then silently watched his buddies hand the Tigers their worst defeat (22-10-2) in 27 years.* He graciously shook hands with young Dahlgren after the game, but the only Yankee who dared try to console him was Pitcher Lefty Gomez. "Hell, Lou." said Lefty, "it took 15 years to get you out of the game; sometimes I'm out in 15 minutes." In the grandstand, viewing all this, was Wally Pipp, now a Grand Rapids (Mich.) businessman. "I know just how he feels," said Mr. Pipp...
...There is an enormous difference," explains Director Hanson, "between music that is well-knit and sounds like Hell, and music that doesn't sound the way the composer intended it to sound. The first is competent musicianship; the second is not. . . . A competent composer deserves at least one hearing before an audience...