Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liberal, his most famed statement was: "I am bound by no creed. Personally, I am a Metho-formed, Presby-gational, Bapto-palian. I am not trying to get men into Heaven; I am trying to get Heaven into men. Nor am I trying to keep men out of Hell, but keep Hell...
...pictures, or innocent double-entendres dependent upon reader-knowledge of an unprintable joke. While Whiz Bang has never been barred from the mails, occasional issues have been held up until they were made passable; and there are sporadic brushes with local authorities over its sale. But in its pages, "hell" appears "h-," or "heck." With the money earned in two years by Whiz Bang, Publisher Fawcett launched upon a largely successful series of publishing ventures, assisted by his brothers Roscoe and (the late) Harvey. The first, True Confessions, began by giving actual confessions of criminals and other big figures...
...American people vindicating Mr. Hoover at the polls." General fun-making included a song: "Oh, the moon's behind a cloud along the Wabash, for the Democrats are making all the hay; in the sycamores the G. O. P. is hiding, on the banks of the Wabash hell's to pay." President Hoover, present as No. 1 guest as usual, as usual addressed his news-gathering hosts, as usual eased his feelings in reply to their horse play, as usual was not reported...
Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium∙ and President Hoover's peripatetic "Envoy at Large," knows what it is to go through a peace conference with the public expecting more than can be achieved. At such times, he knows, Peace is Hell...
...Irving Johnson, mate of Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V on the return voyage to England after the America's Cup races. He told briefly what can happen to a little sailing boat trying to cross the north Atlantic in October. "Seven times we scudded straight through hell and out again. ..." Shamrock left Narragansett Bay Oct. 2. The only man going back who had been on her coming over was Captain William Paul, navigator. He went because he had signed a contract to sail her both ways. He had advertised for a crew and managed to get eight...