Word: sonofabitching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prime President Roosevelt for the visit, Sumner Welles sent him a long solemn memorandum about Somoza and Nicaragua. According to a story told around Washington, Roosevelt read the memo right through, wisecracked: "As a Nicaraguan might say, he's a sonofabitch but he's ours...
...town," moaned Reutlinger, "read about 10,000 clips and immediately she was big enough to have an opinion. She's working like a sonofabitch to prove he didn't do it. Well, these detective writers have to manufacture so damn much that they start living their plots. But what the hell? She's getting good material for a novel and people know her name. They read her stuff. But I certainly don't agree with...
...chicken manure. Author MacDonald staggered; her nose had been dealt "a stinging blow by the outhouse lurking doorless and unlovely" near the porch. Once she ventured to wonder why the Kettles, who had a good stream, did not install a bathroom. Maw Kettle was incensed: "And have every sonofabitch that has to go, traipsin' through my parlor? When we start spendin' money like drunken sailors, it won't be for no lah-de-dah toilet...
...have never met one. We don't believe in allowing fascists to use democratic machinery in order later to destroy it. We have seen what it brings. We want democracy, but if any fascist gets elected by hoodwinking the people, we'll shoot the sonofabitch, like this-" And Stenia swung her Tommy gun around as if firing a deadly burst...
...batted the ball around, and I learned some of [Hearst's] thinking I didn't know about before. We got along fine. . . . Somebody told him I was a sonofabitch and he was beginning to believe it, but I got him unsold. Hell, I'm still here, ain't I?" Ruppel was still there, all right, but last week all references to "Dirty Shirt Town" in the Herald-American were...