Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Mayor Diguglielmo approached the microphones, the placards fell back into the crowd. "I went to Harvard," the Mayor intoned. "I was proud to go to Harvard...The one thing we learned is we don't mix hell (-raising) with patriotism. This is not a ribbin' session...You are guests of Cambridge,"he paused, "temporary guests...
...room." After graduating from the University of Kansas, she went East and got a job on a small Long Island paper. In 1927, she graduated to the New York Daily News. "There," she recalls, "we learned to hit 'em in the eye. We belonged to the who-the-hell-reads-the-second-paragraph school." She still tries to hit 'em in the eye, writes fast in a flat, straightforward style...
...afraid of 'dirty words' [like] 'profit and stockholder' . . . What the hell? Profits and stockholders exist don't they? The readers know they exist and all of 'em like both profits and dividend-paying stocks...
...inventor, the patent was so broad it apparently covered every gasoline-driven car, even though Selden himself never built one. Virtually every U.S. automaker paid 1½% of his sales in royalties to the owner, until Ford, in 1908, sent word: "Selden can take his patent and go to hell." After eight years of court fights, Ford proved the patents invalid...
...fell into the ministry of a fanatical Orthodox priest, Father Konstantinovsky who called him a "swine," and plied the bellows to Gogol's visions of hell fire. Poor Gogol was always chilly now, a twisted little man with a long fox nose, big close-set eyes, a loose little mouth full of bad teeth. For two years before his death, he was often without the power of connected thought. One day he burned most of the manuscript of Part II of Dead Souls. Then he refused to eat. On March 4, 1852, at the age of 43, he died...