Word: helles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's literate, left-wing New Statesman and Nation, which is apt to make rude noises at all critics of Socialism (particularly if the critics are American), has discovered that in Socialist Britain the good old manners have gone to hell. A New Statesman essayist who sounded just a little like a learned Colonel Blimp charted the decline & fall of civility in Britain...
Nobody on the Daily News except Norlander and City Editor Clem Lane knew what had happened to the two rewrite men. One sharp-eyed staffer, who asked Lane about Bird, was told that he was working on a special story. Said the staffer: "The hell he is. I just saw him sitting on a curb on Skid Row. Boy, what a bender he must...
...right [bargaining] results are reached. If labor is not big enough, then we have got to fight the thing out. That is the way I look at bargaining. If they think we are wrong, they strike us, see? That is the way this thing should work. It is a hell of a good way to work...
...Maritain sees "a kind of punishment of the Christian world, which for a long period had more or less betrayed Christianity in its practical endeavor, and despised the lessons of the saints, and forsaken the immense herd of the hopeless whom destitution and unlivable conditions of existence riveted to hell on earth...
...Alfred," wrote Carlyle in 1840, "dusty, smoky, free and easy; who swims outwardly and inwardly, with great composure, in an articulate element as of tranquil chaos and tobacco smoke." Seasoned in the fumes of his own shag, he was also, before he was 35, the veteran of a personal hell from which almost nothing was lacking: a torn and distressful home; the shock and grief of losing his best friend, Arthur Hallam; the cruelty of a sneering review in the Quarterly Review that drove him into nine years of public silence; poverty; a long and apparently hopeless engagement...