Word: damned
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...declared she would again try the production on the road. She explained: ". . . It's mob psychology. The people got together and said they'd not see me black. ... It seems to me New York audiences don't want something good now. . . . Anyway, I'm in damn good company! They wouldn't have Sheridan, or Goldsmith, and it's taken people a pretty long time to swallow Stravinsky. It was a good while before they'd receive Debussy. And God knows Bizet died in a garret! . . . And, dear Lord, what they wrote of Wagner! Dewey ?they killed him: . . . After...
...ecstatic black & white. Aside from his few omissions, his book would make a fairly good, nearly up-to-the-minute guide from Battery to Bronx. One of the omissions: speakeasies. Natu rally M. Morand is too polite to mention them by name, but he is not too polite to damn them generically. Says he : "I know nothing so depressing. . . . If only one could drink water there!" Of Manhattan's big cinemas, he thinks the Paramount "a blend of St. Peter's at Rome, the Parthenon, and the Valley of the Kings": Roxy's he says "surpasses...
...Knoxville. Tenn., Mrs. Ruth Jenkins Gate sued for divorce because her baby's first words, "Damn it to hell.'' were caused, she said, by her husband's habitual profanity...
...last mural moosehead floating under Harvard Bridge and the plumbers had removed a stuffed badger from the innards of my open plumbing fixture . . . . a pretty notion of a weekend, just getting the, old grad back and doing a job on him . . . . what about my reputation? . . . . last year you know damn well you pushed me through the cold buffet in the Copley dining room . . . . yes and said I was cockeyed . . . . well maybe we had, but not enough to make a man fall through a cold buffet . . . . just gratuitously as it were . . . . yes and what about...
...damn it, you're Just another amateur...