Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Thank you for your portrait of a man under "Free Speech, Hell!" in July 22 issue. The face of Al Williams is the traditional American face, strong, clean, purposeful...
...Chinese thought of the Japanese. He replied "Chinaman think Japanman no got proper savvy box." I notice the American public has been indulging freely in Confucian sayings. How is this one? Confucius says Chinese read from right to left, while American read from left to right. American say "hell-o," Chinese say "O-hell...
...year-olds, 4,100,000 Britons were registered for Army service. Behind all these were 1,400 battalions of Local Defense Volunteers, whose name was last week changed to the Home Guard (thus robbing the L. D. V. of their slogan, "We'll give 'em Hell D. V."). The Home Guard are older men, trained at night and over weekends, with a hard core of War I veterans. Their officers' chief concern was to make them overcome their scruples, be prepared to demolish British property when necessary to exterminate Germans...
When Italy entered the war, defending the British position in the Middle East were the same kinds of soldiers who won it 22 years ago: 80,000 English soldiers, 15,000 Australians (not allowed in Egypt because they raised such hell there last time), 10,000 New Zealanders and several thousand Indians, in the basic force in Palestine and Egypt. To these are added numerous local detachments such as 1,000 Indians and Britons at Aden. The total strength of the R. A. F. in the region was believed to be about 1,300 planes...
...famed for its salmon pack-Bristol Bay's Alaska Red, Columbia River's Fancy Chinook. So when the first albacore came to him in 1937, big, whispering, hard-hitting Bill Thompson, 60, sent them to California for processing and packing. California packers condemned twelve carloads. Roaring "To hell with that-we'll can 'em ourselves," Bill Thompson and his fellow Astorians put in $500,000 worth of new tuna-canning equipment...