Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public relations. This has given us a public-relations problem for a long time." A Waco alderman, ex-Mayor Ralph Wolf, put it more bluntly: "The trouble with the Red Cross," he said, "is that they have too many workers . . . who special ize in making people madder than hell...
John Roosevelt, youngest (38) of the Roosevelt boys and the only Republican among them, turned up in Washington to plead for election of a Republican Congress. John, now a California-New York businessman (cosmetics, packaging), told the Citizens for Eisenhower that he would "go to hell" for Ike. He reported that he had asked his "favorite Democrat"-his mother-how to get Democratic support for G.O.P. congressional candidates this fall. "Her reply," he said, "was hardly suitable for this meeting...
...duck laying eggs, a naval battle, and of Sister Rosetta herself. The Superfelds, whose bookings now range from Charleston, S.C. to Pittsburgh, also have sponsored more conventional types of entertainment, e.g., Guy Lombardo, Billy Eckstine, George Shearing, and such road-show stage favorites as Don Juan in Hell, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial and John Brown's Body...
...Fugitive Eye by Charlotte Jay (Harper; $2.50) frankly tries to scare hell out of the reader and is fairly successful. Its hero, who is blind in one eye, sees the tail end of a murder in a forest near London. After he is temporarily blinded in the other eye by an accident, the murderers capture him, and the action gets under way as a dipsomaniac doctor prepares to pour acid in the hero's good eye. The chase in the dark has the reader identified with the hero all the way. Justice, as it must in such a tale...
Says Cèline: "Mumblers and cowards." or hypocrites who are content to remain "flashy gangrenes, vested in elegant, bloody brocades," need not read his books. They can simply go to hell and be "munched with tongues of flame . . . slaking your thirst . . . with a skinful of vinegar, of vitriol so hot that your tongue peels, puffs, bursts . . . and so on through eternal time...