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...Damndest thing that could happen to a father," he exploded. "That will teach me to look a man in the face when I shake his hand...
...Benning. His rank kept him remote from the men of Company D, 68th Armored Regiment (Light). Yet, to all of them, The Old Man was as near and real as the pine bark on the outer walls of their makeshift mess hall. Like God (they said) he had the damndest way of showing up when things went wrong. Unlike God, he had been known to dash leglong into a creek, get a stalled tank and its wretched crew out of the water and back into the line of march, practically by the power of his curses. Last week Company...
...Angeles office listening to Adolf Hitler address the Reichstag (accompanied by a running translation into English). An ex-cavalryman, Vice President Weiss soon began to get sore at Hitler. Presently, after chewing a fat cigar to tatters, he remarked to his assistants: "This is the damndest program I've ever heard. This guy Hitler is a slicker." Thereupon, he popped into his secretary's office, dictated a two-sentence statement, stomped down a corridor to the master control room of his key station KHJ. Thrusting his statement upon a startled announcer, he barked: "Read this and flip...
Forrest was a pretty careful historian and he was acquainted with the Black family. Incidentally, many years ago when I worked in a Washington drug store, the best seller at the cigar counter was an "Ohio Flat," a variation with the damndest shape you ever...
...Child Is Born," despite several descriptive shots of life in the maternity ward, turns out to be somewhat of a blank cartridge. As one man was heard to say when leaving the theatre, "Don't they put on the damndest shows these days...