Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, one hot evening last week, Joe Charlton, 31, and his wife Claire, of San Marcos, Calif., boarded the Comet, night boat to Providence, R. I. Going through Hell Gate Channel in the East River, the purser told them there were no more staterooms. Mr. Charlton demanded the captain turn back. Captain Pendelton demurred. Mr. Charlton took off his hat. coat and shoes. "Come on, Claire," he shouted, jumped overboard, struck out for shore through treacherous currents where many a man has drowned. Impressed, Captain Pendelton ordered the Comet pulled up at North Brother Island, let Mrs. Charlton off, telephoned...
...dissension was made to order for such N. M. U. enemies as A. F. of L.'s Longshoreman Joe Ryan, who yearns to regain command of eastern waterfronts. Said Fireman King: "I feel about the A. F. of L. like everybody else in this union. I say the hell with 'em." Said Joe Curran to his 50,000 members: "Don't be played for suckers." But Joe Curran, more of a democrat than an autocrat, believes that if a majority of his seamen want to be suckers, then suckers they should be without let or hindrance from...
...only thing I can see is that the New Deal is a Paul Revere ridin' hell-for-leather down Main Street spreadin' the alarm that the right way is the left way-and funny thing, damn...
...Loud Mr. O'Connell, who got national publicity by baiting Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City about the latter's suppression of C. I. O. (TIME, June 13), went around among miners, lumberjacks, smelter workers and farmers, declaring that Franklin Roosevelt had told him to "fight like hell to defeat Senator Wheeler's machine so he wouldn't be back...
Impatient at Death's delay, he scrawled: "What the hell...