Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Marx Brothers bouncing around on one stage, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy trilling to one another near by. Warner Brothers pigeonholed their artistic aspirations by canceling Paul Muni's contract, concentrating on such slam-bang hell-raisers as Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield...
...grey-haired, big-eared, balding Bill Donovan is a tough, free-swearing, ungrammatical labor leader in store clothes. When he thinks an argument has gone far enough, he closes it for keeps with the snapper: "And them are the facts! What the hell?" His prosperous Local 46 has around 15,000 members, over $90,000 in the till, closed-shop contracts with all but two of Chicago's 960 laundries. Some 90% of its members are women, about one-third are Negroes. In three years Bill Donovan has doubled their hourly wages. In that time there have been...
From that sounding board Quezon began to talk. He clashed with U. S. Governors General over prerogatives. Once he cried: "I would rather live under a government run like hell by Filipinos than one run like heaven by Americans." His feud with Governor General Leonard Wood was said to have hastened Wood's death; it laid fiery Quezon low with tuberculosis. Recovered, he got his political machete out again. By this time his campaign for Philippine independence had won support in parts of the U. S. A powerful sugar lobby and many a U. S. producer wanted competitive Philippine...
...friend and patron had fallen on hard times, gave Lyulph Ogilvy a job. The Post (now fairly sedate) was a bold, rowdy, unscrupulous journal when Ogilvy joined its staff in 1909. When Tammen asked what his first name was, Ogilvy answered, "Lyulph." Said Tammen: "That's a hell of a name. We'll call you Lord Ogilvy...
...before they could forget the greying, generous, powerfully built man who slapped them on the back and said: "This is the best God damn company in the world"; who built the famed Barco pipeline in Colombia after they said it couldn't be done; who once exclaimed: "Hell, if they wanted to move the Chrysler Building to Colombia, we'd do it-if they'd pay us for it." And around Manhattan's 52nd Street, habitues of "21" wondered what the club would be like without the old salt and his stories...