Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Growled Missouri's Senator Harry Truman: "I think it's a hell of a note...
...provide music. They can get quite a good soprano for two or three guineas plus her dinner which she eats behind a screen or in the next room (because of the stories); but if she is old and ugly your diners moodily finger their wine glasses and murmur 'Hell,' and if she is young and charming they are continually popping behind the screen to see if she's got everything she wants. In either case it's all rather distracting and a speechmaker is well worth the little extra...
First editor indicted under Westman's forgotten law was a notable Swedish Socialist, journalist, poet: Senator Ture Nerman. In his weekly Trots Allt, after the bombing of Hitler's beer hall in Munich, he wrote an editorial on "Hitler's Hell Machine." Senator Nerman was found guilty, sentenced to three months in jail. Then followed a wave of arrests and convictions for "offensive writings...
...called the rescue of 299 British prisoners from the Nazi "hell ship" an "admirably conducted operation" and said that Norway's defense of her action was "at variance with international law as His Majesty's Government understands...
LONDON--Great Britian tonight assumed the diplomatic offensive against Norway in the Altmark incident, demanding that Norway intern the German "hell ship" and charging Norway with falling in its duty as a neutral...