Word: helluva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sneath kept trying. To the master of another distinguished school he wrote: "You will doubtless remember old Tubby Sneath-well, it will give you a helluva shock, you old bounder, because last year I took the headship here . . . Listen, Stinker, quite seriously, Selhurst is having a beano for its 300th anniversary on June 19. Could you come down, old boy, and give us a sermon on the Sunday?" Returned the headmaster's secretary, on the distinguished man's behalf: "Obviously not meant...
NAPS span the continent, says the press card the Editor hands me, and it says that we've got offices in New York, Montreal, Seattle, and a helluva lot of other big cities...
Things were different, sure, but there were compensating factors. Like the Radcliffe girls. They were dumber now, he thought, but a helluva lot better looking. Sometimes, when Vag had had a sufficient amount of beer at the O.G., he could get sentimental about the good old days, and all that stuff, but not now, not at ten o'clock in the morning with the April sun shining through the elms. The love songs were different, but they were just as good as the old ones, and most of the guys were back and most of them were just like...
Concluded Capp: "I learned that there isn't a helluva lot anyone else can do that you and I can't do, and there isn't anything in life anyone else can have, we can't have. Wait...
...aircraft plants. Last week labor and management were still equally enthusiastic. Said O. G. Lompe, a Douglas jig builder and C.I.O. shop steward, "Sure, we like the class. They give us the straight facts. ..." Said Supervisor Robert Kennedy, in charge of building C-47s: "Yes sir, I learned a helluva lot." Said President Donald Douglas: "Most grievances grow from misunderstanding. When we learn how to analyze and understand the other fellow and his problems, most of our troubles and grievances will disappear...