Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hell. The morning after, Leader Barkley tried to continue his harmonious and efficient drive to put through final legislation. To Vice President Garner's desk he sent a memorandum outlining the order in which bills were to be considered. After disposal of a bill for peacetime exports of helium, Senator King was to be recognized to call up the District of Columbia Airport Bill. The Helium Bill was passed as Senator King sat near Leader Barkley. He rustled his papers and prepared to get up with the Airport Bill but was slow on his feet. New York...
...upon the Viscountess who blandly sat down, ordered tea. Next day the Squadron Committee met to discuss the crisis, decided to authorize the gatekeeper to turn back in future any woman so dressed. To newshawks Lord Hinchingbrooke expressed himself laconically: "Private club. . . . Private pants. " . . . Private matter. So what the Hell...
...sketches were enthusiastically approved by Harry M. Durning, Collector of Customs for the Port of New York, but brakes recently applied on some forms of Federal expenditure stalled the project. Last week a compromise was effected. Artist Marsh, insisting that he was "keen as hell" to get his mural up at almost any price had himself enrolled as an Assistant Clerk in the Treasury Department's Procurement Division, salary 90? an hour, $1,560 a year, to paint his picture. Under him will be six assistants, listed as "artists" and drawing $1.60 an hour for a 15-hour week...
...remembered her saying: "You stupid little page boy, if your eyes weren't so blue I should ask my father to kill you and cook your flesh in a pot and give it to the dogs . . . and God will punish you and you will burn in hell forever . . . so take that [kissing him fiercely...
...ripped her last few clothes away, assaulted her brutally. When she confessed bitterly that she had intended to follow him after his escape, he finished her off with his revolver, used one badly-aimed bullet on himself. But the Serbians arrived the next night, nursed him back to the hell that ended mercifully a year later in the duel at Sofia...