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Word: damned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 22, 1930 | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Manhattan* | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swank | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Why You Have Headaches" or "Champagne, Mirabeau, and Mooseheads," in Just One Act | 11/8/1930 | See Source »

...damn it, you're Just another amateur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 27, 1930 | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

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