Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...when he published a factual, informative, detached book, American Labor, that summed up labor's story. There is nothing detached about Labor's Civil War. Like some Mencken of the proletariat, heaving adjectives at labor's sacred cows, Mr. Harris sustains a note of exasperation, ridicule, hell-and-damnation for 298 pages to show how American unions are moving toward "a double suicide of majestic stupidity...
...already had signs of another housing shortage. Worst shortages were at and near shipyards (Bremerton. Wash.; Norfolk, Va.; Newport, R. I.; Mare Island. Calif., etc.) where workers flocked by thousands. At Bremerton (Puget Sound Navy Yard), State patrolmen, harried by reports of "stolen" and abandoned cars, wearily retorted: "Hell, there's guys living in them-Navy yard workers...
...cellars, branched out on its job, then flew back by the same route. Because many planes which had not found or had been driven away from their objectives jettisoned their bombs at random in this lane, and because there were plenty of targets there anyhow, it was dubbed Hell's Corridor...
That Jimmy Cox had been fighting his inquisitors when he was hurled from a window was proved, said Mrs. Cox, by his last words. As she held him in her arms, he kept struggling, yelled over & over: "Hell! Hell! Let me go! . . . What do you want? Blast...
Sumner was always less irritated by taboos, rituals and fetishes of primitives than by those of civilization. At Yale he regularly raised hell in faculty meetings. Once, when President Arthur Twining Hadley offered a mild difference of opinion, Sumner barked: "But it's the truth!" "That is possible," said Hadley, "but it is not always necessary to tell the truth butt-end first." Said Sumner: "I always tell the truth butt-end first...