Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Observed with admiration a rubberstamp spelling out the forceful legend: "Hell No!" as designed and used by Ohio's Representative James Seccombe in giving some of his correspondents short answers...
...Senate is used to the silver situation, not to say bored by it. Yet last week a Senatorial Lone Ranger once more took the trail of the wild-riding, hell-for-leather Silver Bloc, grimly determined to stop the Treasury raids. Ordinarily, big, easygoing Senator John Gillis Townsend of Delaware is no Lone Ranger. Gregarious John Townsend, whose head looks like a snowball bush in full bloom, is solidly Republican, completely acceptable to Delaware's Du Pont dynasty. Annually he 1) presents gallery newsmen and the Senate with all the sweet-tart spring strawberries they can eat, 2) gets...
...scene in the House was an odd mixture of cowardice, confusion, misunderstanding. To beat around the bush of last autumn's Neutrality Act, the loan was restricted to non-military supplies. Michigan's nervous Representative John Dingell shouted: "To hell with Stalin and to hell with Hitler! . . . We restrict the loan for powder puffs, silken scanty panties and cream puffs, when we know the Finns need shrapnel,* buckshot, barbed wire and all the fiercest implements of hell because they are fighting to stop anti-Christ and the hosts of hell led by Beelzebub. ... Let every man stand...
More in the British give-'em-hell tradition is an airmen's song now being sung by Canadian fliers at the front. Written by Flying Officer William George Middlebro and Pilot Officer Harry Ashley, both of the 110th City of Toronto Squadron, its chorus goes...
...hare to put your heart in it," Talluish stated when queried on student drama. "Almost any one can do justice to a play with enough real enthusiasm and hard work. Hell, that's what made me an actress...