Word: damndest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diary opens, Lincoln "quietly grinned" when he was told of a plot to murder him. When told of the generals' ambition to set up a military dictatorship, Lincoln was reminded of Jim Jett's brother: "Jim used to say that his brother was the damndest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence he was also the damndest fool...
...There's big Ken, who looks so docile and lumbering but about whom enemy linemen have nightmares weeks before the Harvard. . . . There' little Nick, who had to wait for Russ and Chuck, and who seems to delight in his opponents' weight advantage. There's solemn Dave, who has the damndest luck with black eyes. There's colorful Tim, who like Hacker has found new joy in tackling. There's the steady Chief, with the barrel-house voice and the sure toe. There's Don and Win, a set of ends who have justified the confidence placed in them. There...
...tour around the country. It was an entertaining trip. "Another thing we done in Washington is to go into the Senate and look in on those damn fools with goatees and funny coats arguing about this and that just like they was arguing about something serious, the damndest fool thing you ever seen, the way them boys act like they was running the country and the country not paying no attention atall to them...
...Damndest Rule' To cut costs the House was presented last week with an omnibus bill into which a special committee had dumped a quarter-billion dollars worth of proposed chips and shavings from the government's lumber yard. Many of its items were approved by President Hoover as part of his "national economy program." As a non-partisan measure it was offered as a "rider" to the legislative appropriation bill...
Because economy in any form is a bitter draft to the average Congressman, he and a majority of his fellows were determined to make legislative hash out of this measure. A special rule ("the damndest rule we ever got," according to Chairman Pou of the Rules Committee) was introduced to limit debate and amendments and thus hold the rider intact. But the House swept the "gag rule" aside and in a state of revolt reminiscent of the Sales Tax fight, plunged headlong into the redrafting of the economy bill on the floor. There was no predominant leader of this latest...