Word: helled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that it was generally credited were in themselves indications that the President was functioning in top form. Improved by: 1) his eight-day fishing trip, and 2) his confidence that Congress was again in a tractable frame of mind, he breezed through a week including everything from Hell to helium with complete finesse, good humor and enthusiasm...
...have understood that factionalism rampant in the U. A. W. A. was harming the whole industrial union movement. Outlaw sit-downs, repudiations of his authority, and kindred manifestations of factional trouble were blamed by Mr. Martin upon Communist careerists and others in his union who, according to him, raised hell for the hell of it. In large part, Mr. Lewis blamed Mr. Martin, who according to the C. I. O. chairman should have displayed more administrative fortitude, a quality which Mr. Lewis abundantly possesses and, on occasion, brutally uses...
...short story writer, was down with writer's cramp in San Francisco, had to stop work on his memoirs. Quizzed further, Humorist Cobb refuted both reports, swore he had never had writer's cramp. His procedure is to write longhand, have a secretary typewrite it, "hoping to hell I don't have to change it. I have had no muscular cramp to date. Only intestinal twinges...
...modesty to be replaced by an aggressive desire not to go home. Last week, he was running for the nomination to succeed himself against Mr. Berry who is an ex-cowboy, wears a white sombrero, and once astounded a Washington redcap by stepping off a train and shouting "Hell, boy, where's the water-hole?" When the votes were tallied, Mr. Hitchcock came in a bad third, behind a Congressman named Fred Hildebrandt, leaving Rooseveltian Mr. Berry with nothing between himself and the Senate but the November elections. His Republican opponent will be Chandler Gurney-who lost a close...
...jobs now held by women reporters on the eight big dailies. Education and social work look like the best bets to him. Department-store selling he puts at the bottom of the list, because he has seen more usually calm women "knock their nervous systems to hell" in that than in any other job. Giving the little girls credit for being able to take care of themselves, and comparing their possible salaries with New York living costs, Author Leaf tries to show them what they will be up against, rather than warn them off. But since he writes warmly about...