Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...many a U. S. Congressman. "An outrageous and disgraceful breach of his office," growled Missouri's Senator Clark, demanding Jimmy's immediate recall. Ohio's Representative Sweeney: "We should have the courage to tell Cromwell and his lawfully wedded fortune, Doris Duke, to get the hell out of this Republic." Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota accused Jimmy of being a mere mouthpiece: "All that Cromwell was doing was reflecting the language and wishes of the President...
...Your German is, of all foul and dirty fighters, the foulest and dirtiest. We must . . . give them hell in every sort of way." As rebellious criticism mounted, political dopesters even mentioned David Lloyd George the "Welsh Wizard" who won the last war for Great Britain, as a possible last-ditch Cabinet appointee. And from France came censored dispatches predicting soon the formation of a "sacred union," Government of all parties...
...head is revolving," says Bishop Kinsolving, Heigh-ho, we'll blow the man down. "I'll drink till I totter," says Rt. Rev. Potter. . . . "To hell with white ribbons," says good Cardinal Gibbons...
...late Rt. Rev. George Herbert Kinsolving, 6 ft. 4 in. and hefty, became Episcopal Bishop of Texas ("Texas George"). Reminded, after his election, of General Sherman's statement that "if he owned Hell and Texas, he would farm out Texas and live in Hell," Texas George replied: "Since in the inscrutable providence of God, the General has been granted his choice, I think I'll go down and see what I can do with the farm." The late Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, tall and handsome brother of Texas George, founded the first Protestant mission in Brazil...
Zanzibar (Universal), from the studio which recently gave the world Green Hell, is one of the funniest pictures ever made in all seriousness. Fun begins when Lola Lane (a lion huntress) becomes involved in a struggle to the death between the British Empire and Eduardo Ciannelli. Miss Lane is pro-British. She and Mr. Ciannelli both have orders to steal the skull of a former African chief, Mkwawa (pronounced McVava...