Word: swearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free Mooney. Whimsical Johnny Bruce, an editor who never finds it necessary to shout or swear at his staff, was weaned on the newspaper lore of his town. At nine, the year after the 1906 earthquake, he hawked the Bulletin in San Francisco's Mission district...
...went on to say: "You must put off your . . . knowledge . . . you must live in my world . . . if I can't inhabit yours." To make sure, he went to stay a few days with Russell in Cambridge, rushed away in a state of "melancholic malaria." "I wish you would swear a sort of allegiance with me," he said. ". . . I have been much too Christian . . . I must drop all about God . . . You must drop all your democracy . . . There must be an aristocracy . . . a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents & democracies...
Thanks to editorials on the Bloomfield episode, everyone should also know who is "American" and who is not. One newspaper in Oklahoma stated, "Time was when Harvard was American." This means, of course, that Newman's position is "un-American." It also means that making a man swear fealty to a particular economic belief in order that he may teach, making him broadcast his private political fancies before his professional competence may be proved, is "American...
Despite her tremendous drawing power (she once broke attendance records in Boston during a blizzard that stopped traffic and closed the schools), some of Broadway's top producers and directors swear they will never again have any truck with her. (Says one: "The woman is constitutionally unable to fit harmoniously into a group effort.") Mostly, these people are merely unwilling to follow the one tested formula for getting along with Tallulah: give in to her. The formula seems to work for Producer John C. Wilson; he also put on her last show, Jean Cocteau's The Eagle...
...suit for separation that he used to leave tender notes on her pillow before leaving for work. Sample: "Cherub: Rise and shine. 'Tis a lovely day for a lovely cherub." If he failed to leave a note, said Hirschberg, his wife would cut loose later with "swear words and oaths that would make a seasoned muleskinner envious." Said Cherub: "I remember calling him, nothing worse than a penny-pinching jerk...