Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury's acting head. Mr. Morgenthau was well content, for as two men of property, probity and conservative tastes, he and John Hanes understand each other well. They agree, for instance, that if the Budget is not balanced some day soon, the country will surely go to hell...
...managing editor of the defunct Chicago Post, swart, husky Michael Wolf Straus used to "raise merry hell" with the furious but futile efforts of Reformer Harold L. Ickes to clean up Chicago politics. A reformer himself, Editor Straus also raised hell with other local celebrities like Al Capone. Later he went to Washington as a Hearst correspondent and in June 1933, when Secretary of the Interior Ickes wanted a "director of information" (i. e., head pressagent) for Interior and PWA, he chose hell-raising Mike Straus. Since then the nation has heard plenty from him about Honest Harold Ickes...
...Harry and Maxwell Kunin (who became secretary-treasurer and vice president) got bigger manufacturing and distributing facilities, the prestige of Sprague Warner's name. Sprague Warner got the Kunins. Nobody put up any money. To reports that he had bought out Sprague Warner, Harry Kunin replied: "Where the hell would I lay my hands...
...original the sensuous, rakehell Don kills the father of Doña Ana, one of the girls he has violated. Later he invites the father's statue to sup with him. The statue comes, demands that Juan repent his many sins. Don Juan refuses, is snatched down into Hell...
Only witness to the Don's descent into Hell was his scalawag servant, Leporello, word was no more trustworthy than his master's. Doña Ana, her suitor Don Ottavio and Leporello set off for Juan's country home, to tell Juan's father of his son's strange death. On the way Leporello disappears. Doña Ana suspects him of having invented the whole story. Sure enough, first Leporello, then Juan himself reappears. It seems that Juan had merely had a bad case of nettle rash, which marred his handsome face...