Word: hells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Enemy. Two years ago in Manhattan, Playwright Charming Pollock offered theatre-goers a play whose purpose was to prove the too-often demonstrated assertion that War is Hell. Transposed now to the more extensive medium of the cinema, The Enemy monotonously but accurately hammers the nail of that assertion into the stout oak of the public intelligence...
...straw to break the camel's back. The apparatus of modern civilization has had the tendency to throw the people into the throes of vice, it is true. Dr. Fosdick went as far as to say that a path bestrewn with chewing gum led as surely to Hell as to a telephone exchange, but to have that stigdra east on the subways seems Nemesis. They appeared the one wholesome, clean place where a man could go to get away from himself. But now engaged girls will pawn their rings, and go by taxi to save their name: old maids will...
...Company of New York has the largest interests in China of any petroleum firm whatsoever. President Calvin Coolidge has despatched U. S. Marines "to protect U. S. interests in China" (TIME, March 7, 1927). The commander-in-chief of these Marines is Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, famed "fighting hell-devil Marine." Last week General Butler personally directed U. S. Marines who fought for more than 24 hours and finally extinguished a fire which threatened the $25,000,000 petroleum stores of the Standard Oil Company of New York, at Tientsin (near Peking...
...cathedral, where demons drove her mad. She killed her child and went to prison. There the young-old man visited her again. Taking refuge in prayer, she saved her own soul from the Devil. Angels came and rejoiced. Her seducer, young no more, had to go to Hell to pay the Devil's bargain. . . . President and Mrs. Coolidge, and the better part of distinguished Washington, last week enjoyed an enactment of this old tale-the tale of Dr. Faustus, legendary German philosopher, modified from Poet Goethe's tragedy for Composer Gounod's opera and re-modified into...
...threw in rocks, And they won't give a damn if they break the box. The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out, They crawl all over your chin and mouth, They invite their friends and their friends' friends too And you look like hell when they're -through-with you. There are long narrative songs...