Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...write. They knew it had taken two years and something akin to genius to find a girl to play Scarlett O'Hara. They knew it had cost more ($3,850,000) to produce the picture than any other in cinema history except Ben Hur ($4,500,000) and Hell's Angels ($4,000,000). They knew it was one of the longest pictures ever filmed (three hours and three quarters of Technicolored action). Above all, most of them knew by heart the love story of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, and they were there to protest...
...goes to the University of California. There she loves a 200% American with Indian blood, leads the fast, far-weekending, Sierra-smitten life of the Golden West. Back in France she finds her family stuffy, marries her cousin, learns that her family when pressed can raise considerable hell...
...translation, fully competent, lucid and unpretentious, of the French Poet Rimbaud's famed Season in Hell. Translator Delmore Schwartz kept in English all that dispassionate English can keep of Rimbaud's poetry-everything, that is, but the essential harshness and resonance of the original...
...call London, Paris, Berlin on the radio-telephone first: to check on connections, atmospheric conditions, whether the correspondents are ready with their stuff. One morning last week, Berlin came through crisp and clear. "B-r-r," said a Nazi voice in inspired English, "it's colder than hell over here." Then his accents froze stiff. "Sorry, gentlemen," said he, "I shouldn't have said that. It might give aid and comfort to the enemy...
...does Vag write now? Well, frankly, Santa, things aren't so good. For the past several years, the presents haven't been coming through at all well. Father has become inclined to say bluntly: "Go to hell" when Vag makes his Yuletide suggestions. More and more, Vag is finding he has to play Santa himself and for himself. And the only word for this situation is stinko...