Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Listening to Gene, the farmers had suddenly realized what it was that had been binding them so long. It was those damn clean clothes...
...town," moaned Reutlinger, "read about 10,000 clips and immediately she was big enough to have an opinion. She's working like a sonofabitch to prove he didn't do it. Well, these detective writers have to manufacture so damn much that they start living their plots. But what the hell? She's getting good material for a novel and people know her name. They read her stuff. But I certainly don't agree with...
...Yank and OWI. Holiday, Curtis' flashily upholstered but unexciting travel magazine, had dropped from a first-appearance (TIME, Feb. 25) sale of 450,000 to 400,000 (about half of them pre-publication trial subscribers), and newsstand returns were heavy. Fuller brushed off rumors that Holiday might fold ("damn foolishness") and said that Holiday's current circulation was actually above original estimates. Said he: "It has to do better than that. I want it to be hot. I want it to be so hot that it disappears from the newsstands." Over "differences on editorial policy," Fuller fired Holiday...
...Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce is the greatest nigger-lover in the North- except Old Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Yep, Old Lady Roosevelt is worse. ... In Washington she forced our Southern girls to use the stools and the toilets of damn syphilitic nigger women...
Bankers wondered if that was wise. One wondered aloud: "I guess Giannini knows what he is doing . . . but you can't get a damn cent out of real-estate loans when the bottom drops...