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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What the hell is the church doing out here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...office. They posed him in half a dozen positions, ordered him this way and that. In silence he bore their directions. Finally one cameraman called out, "Please write something on a piece of paper, Mr. Secretary." He wrote. The cameras clicked. On the paper were the words: "This is hell. C.F. Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hell | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Bill! How's things? Saving this place? Yeah, I don't eat much at noon. Look out--sorry...Well, why the hell don't you look where you're going? Oh...Jees, look at my sleeve. Chocolate milk all over it. Sure, I do. The litle shrimp sits in front of me in French. I'll joggle his chair, absentminded, tomorrow. Yeh, we got an exam. You can drive a guy nuts that way. You can drive a guy--sure, it does. Just scrape...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

...begat "Jack"-the present "J. Pierpont Morgan" (as he signs himself with nice filial deference). When introduced as "Mr. Morgan" at a recent smoker of his Harvard class of '89, he promptly cried: "Oh Hell, call me Jack!" Of course only his closest intimates and partners ever do. In common converse with the public a partner of the House of Morgan avoids mentioning his colleagues by any name or nickname. "One of our partners in Philadelphia" is supposed to be a designation so august that it would be fiscal sacrilege to ask "Which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Iron Man & Velvet Glove | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...suggested .that The Nation was too solemn, and that its editor, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, ought to be taken to a night club occasionally, and shot full of synthetic hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Masses v. The Nation | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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