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...Damn" & "Hell...
...vulgarity which is so frequently quoted; e. g., in the last issue on p. 14, one article is headed "Damn Big Dam," and on p. 16, the words of Senator Norris are quoted: "Take a bundle of straw and go across the river and start a little hell of his own." Such quotations are the fly in the ointment. They have a bad influence on the minds of the children in a family by a paper which otherwise is an excellent journal for the home...
TIME doubts that the omission of "damn" and "hell" from its pages, where they never appear wantonly and almost always in quotation, would greatly ameliorate the moral condition of a U. S. child in A. D. 1931. Mr. Cummings' request must be denied in the interest of realistic reporting. But TIME will continue to delete obscenities...
...wearers of the Green off to hotels this vacation. Hotels in Montreal, in New York, in Bermuda, in Boston, in Florida, and in Pinehurst. They will find in many of these centers of American culture and criticism an unvoiced assumption that the generic Dartmouth gentleman is a roguish, rakish, hell-bent-for-affection sort of fellow with all the manly virtues and not a few of the more virile peculation's that go to make up the finished citizen of the world. This axiom means a lot to us. There is a pleasure in it that emanates only from undeserved...
...going to hell-oh, to hell...