Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hell couldn't he drive a mile farther into Boston so we wouldn't have to clean up this -- mess!" remarked an irate fireman who, incidentally, supplied the liquid refreshment to expectant students...
Belated are the heated protests of loyal Southerners anent the picturing of William Tecumseh ("War . . . is all Hell") Sherman on a U. S. postage stamp (TIME, Feb. 22), for no precedent is the Post Office Department setting...
...hell!" returned the strikers...
...there can be a smile in such a tragedy, it came from the 13th man, a spry little Irishman named Tom Casey who felt the staging going, grasped a caster overhead and dangled for seven minutes. "It seemed a hell of a lot longer than that to me!" he said. Workers from above lowered a looped cable through which he inserted his legs, permitting them to hoist him to safety. Not until then did he unclench his teeth from his pipe, let it drop down, down into...
...harder was it for young gallery-goers to realize the excitement and opposition that these pictures caused when they were first painted. The Eight were not interested in either technical or political experiments. George Luks, for example, had a larger capacity for beer and a greater ingenuity at general hell-raising than almost any Greenwich Villager before or since. Yet the two little girls dancing to a barrel organ in last week's show, or the puzzled baby watching her bald father play the guitar, are blameless bits of conservative painting. The mere fact, 30 years ago, that these...