Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Excerpts from Mr. Willkie's talks in and around Chicago include the following choice morsels: "The hell with Chicago."-"I want to find out if you really are too damn dumb to understand. Is anyone here so damn dumb that he thinks we can go on another four years, anyone so damn dumb that he cannot realize that burden?"-"I can do as much work as any damn...
...brief cases, as canes) to electrify feminine rumps (some fiends used rubber bands, which stung). With canes they impartially h'isted the skirts of women, young or old, who entered cabs, climbed steps, or boarded streetcars. For unwary females, the corner of Tremont and Boylston Street became "Hell's Corner." Any girl uninsulated with a stout rubber girdle was likely to be shocked into hysterics...
...swing of ever more bands-400 of them. There were Indians, Zouaves, a four-year-old and a 60-year-old drum majorette; a blind veteran with a Seeing Eye dog; Rudy Vallee, "Bojangles" Robinson, a sign reading "America-Love It or Leave It"; a Brooklyn contingent bawling "To hell with the guys who brought their wives! We have no wives with us!'' The American Legion was on parade...
...Navy of six destroyers, five minesweepers and 37 small auxiliary craft. Last week it had 120 vessels (including six ex-U. S. destroyers) and was growing fast. And though its vessels had long been engaged in the humdrum work of convoy and patrol, and distinguished themselves in the hell of Dunkirk, last week for the first time the Royal Canadian Navy gave the world a good, smacking sea brush of its own to show it had no barnacles on its bottoms...
Along the southern borders of Kwangsi and Yunnan Provinces 200,000 of the best troops China possesses fingered their rifles last week, awaiting a showdown in the game of pressure diplomacy across the frontier. In the last two months Japan's hell-for-leather Army mission had twice pushed negotiations with French Indo-China to a stalemate, had threateningly packed its bags, then backed down. But each time the Japanese came back with even stiffer demands. Last week they pushed hard for the most drastic terms...