Word: helluva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comfortably sipping a victory martini out of one of his galley's plastic cups, Skipper Geib sounded off with pride, "This is a helluva boat," and flung a challenge to the current hot boat on the saltwater circuit. Bermuda Racewinner Finisterre. Said he: "What with Finisterre and Figaro, a lot of people are saying that the day of the keel boat is over-that the centerboarders are the new thing. I'd like to see Finisterre come out here and race on the Great Lakes. I think we could give her a run for her money. Sure, bring...
...Mickey was not to be stopped that easily. In 1938, he sued the Lampoon for libel and threatened to tear down their Hearst-bequeathed edifice and install Benny Jacobson in its stead. He's a helluva lot funnier than the Lampoon anyway," he said. Along more "serious" lines, the Dude introduced a bill into the council to strike the words "Lenin" and "Leningrad" from all Cambridge library books. Eddic proudly tells anyone who will listen how his father predicted the "notorious spread of Marxism in the University...
...9/20/55. Beleave me, this is a helluva way to spend my birthday...
...some of the gayer New Orleans brothels, came to be regarded as one of the best jazzmen in the U.S., but never managed to make a steady living at it. Once he ran a pants-pressing establishment in Harlem and only made music after hours. "We done a helluva lot of pressing in the mornings," he recollects. In 1949 he settled down in Paris. Ordinarily, he may be heard in a Left Bank boite called Club du Vieux Colombier, where beer comes high ($2 a bottle) and the inevitable French jitterbug couples in turtleneck sweaters make dancing perilous. Sidney...
...HELLUVA...