Word: helles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Edwards (Democrat): "Hell and Maria?and not much Maria...
...measures proposed by Vice-President Dawes in his unprecedented inaugural address. The speech which inspired alternate indignation and amusement in the august chamber of Senators has been the most talked-of event in the inaugural day and occasioned violent opinions on both sides. In Professor Holcombe's opinion the "hell without Maria", of which the senators complained, is the best thing which that very self-important body has heard for some time...
...play was Hell's Bells, performed in a Manhattan Theatre. O'Donnell was Eddie Garvie. The wounded man was Clifton Self. The woman who fainted was Shirley Booth. The laughing onlookers were the audience. They thought it was a joke until the curtain went down and they had to endure a long wait while Garvie was arrested and Self was treated to bandages and salve. Then up went the curtain and the play was finished. Afterward, Garvie was taken to jail, but released subsequently on $500 bail...
...Hell's Bells chimed with a doubtful harmony. Their refrain told of two miners from the West who came home again to Connecticut. In the clutch of one was a $500 bill. Promptly the old folks mistook them for millionaires. These same designing elders proceeded to prove that the rich relative was insane and should therefore be pitched into a sanitarium, stripped of his riches...
...Brooklyn, one William Wakoz, longshoreman, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, and roaring drunk, rolled down a street insulting men, women, children. There approached a priest who said : "Be a little more gentle, my good man." Up went the longshoreman's fist. "Go to Hell,'' cried he. The next moment, Bully Wakoz was on his back in the street with the priest astride him. The Bully was then arrested, fined...