Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phoenix on his way home, he said: "Sure I called him the most dangerous menace to America, but I don't understand why the remark caused excitement." Back home in Kansas City, he was asked if his statement reflected the viewpoint of the President. "That's the hell of it," he said unhappily. "People misinterpret things. I want," he added belatedly, "to keep out of controversial subjects...
Scriptwriter Pete goes with him, and they fight every step of the way through an underbrush of moralization about the evils of wanton slaughter. In the end Wilson gets tired of the safari to self-understanding and snarls: "What the hell, a man's responsibility is really limited to himself. If you found out, through me, that you're not as brave as you think you are, well, that's not my fault. You would have found out ultimately anyway...
...would just listen." When Post Lawyer Simon H. Rifkind, onetime federal judge, set forth that Winchell had printed Russian propaganda, Winchell amiably agreed. "Do you remember when Mr. Churchill made his famous speech [in 1946, warning of Russian aggression] at Fulton, Mo.?" asked Rifkind. Answered Winchell: "I panned hell out of it." He admitted having used in his column such Winchellese as "Sovvy-bogey, Reds-under-the-beds-panicker, Bolshy boo, the fi-fo-fuming of forumites" to blast the critics of Russia. Mindful that Winchell bases most of his attacks on Post Editor Wechsler on Wechsler's admitted...
...spot for the next shot. If a script girl should point out that the badman is not carrying the same ivory-handled six-shooter as in a previous scene, Beaudine says with a shrug: "If the audience notices a thing like that, we've made a hell of a boring picture...
...wifiekin," as when he was moved by the human and physical blight of the Industrial Revolution on a South Wales town: "The town might be ... one of the prettiest places in the world, and it is one of the sootiest, squalidest and ugliest ... It is like a vision of Hell, and will never leave me, that of those poor creatures broiling, all in sweat and dirt, amid their furnaces, pits and rolling mills...