Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate suddenly responded to President Roosevelt's call for action, dismayed him by taking the bit in its mouth, speeding hell bent on its own course. Ignoring Administration "must" bills...
When John Pierpont Morgan I, pacing his office at No. 23 Wall St., heard the decision dissolving the Standard Oil Trust, he growled: "How in hell is any court going to compel a man to compete with himself?" Few blocks away at No. 26 Broadway, home office of Standard Oil of N. J., thin, aging John D. Rockefeller took a calmer view. "We must obey the Supreme Court," he advised his six associates. "Our splendid, happy family must scatter...
...decidedly indisposed; the knowledge that seal meat looks like liver, but tastes different; indisputable proof that the common cold and other germs flourish in Antarctica; samples of unidentified bugs which live in snow and melted ice pools; the memory of four months alone in an ice hut, "lonely as hell," studying weather conditions, reading 85 books and letting his hair grow to shoulder-length...
...hell For Jesus and Dickens and Edith Cavell...
...atrocious ends had plunged the world into this stupendous catastrophe." "Marse Henry" Watterson. fiery editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, voiced U. S. opinion early in the War (September, 1914): "May Heaven protect the Vaterland from contamination and give the German people a chance! To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs!" From this sentiment to the feeling that all Germans were barbarians was an easy step. Though U. S. General Sherman had coined the phrase, the U. S. never grasped the fact that war is hell, thought (under advice) the Germans must be hellions. "Innumerable sensible Americans were . . . genuinely...