Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union and you'll see them; recognize them by their clothes, their hair-cuts, the way they use their hands. Brilliant scholars, lots of these, every fourth man the head of his secondary school class. Athletes, six-foot-one, one hundred eighty, in by the skin of their teeth. Hell-raisers who already know every bar that stays open after hours. High-school boys in dark serge; and prep-school boys wearing tweeds and plaids with the proper air. Social registerites. Dilletantes. Radicals...
...Staff, and even though 18 months later his fortifications had fallen and his cause was lost, he had earned his brassard. When on September 29, 1918 the men of the U. S. II Corps went up against the final defenses of his Siegfried Position at Bellicourt, they had hell's own time. Between Bellicourt and Bony the St. Quentin Canal passed through a tunnel. In complete safety from shellfire the Germans massed reserve troops who lived in there on barges, ate in kitchens carved from the side of the tunnel and could mount to their hidden outside fighting positions...
Head coach: J. Hell Stahley...
Between 15 and 19, Arthur Rimbaud wrote poetry whose slashing irony and pure music still influence poets. At 19 he wrote Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell), an obscure, agonized hodgepodge in which Rimbaud addicts* trace the wrestlings of his André Gide-like puritanism with his André Gide-like passions. But from then until he died, at 37, in a Marseille hospital, Arthur Rimbaud never wrote again. This amazing break with his genius, his lone-wolf prowlings through the lower depths of Europe, his gunrunning in Africa and Asia form a vague, provoking literary legend...
...Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Robert Peace went to court with her husband, told the judge, "Since I married up with that name, I have been living in full hell." The judge listened, set another day for hearings, shouted after them as they left, "Peace be with...