Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Report. Evenly divided between discussion of Fascists and Communists, made up of 15,000 well-chosen words, the report had not a line to justify the hell & damnation that preceded it. It began: "Every modern democratic nation is confronted by two pressing problems. The first is the preservation of the constitutional liberties which their people have gained through the years of struggle, the second is the problem of adjusting their economic life to the difficulties of the machine age. . . ." Although rival groups seek power and influence by exploiting economic distress, attempting to undermine democracy, main problem in combating them...
...Cover) If and when the New Dealers leave Washington, they will have learned at least one thing-how to take it. Franklin Roosevelt has been lambasted from hell to breakfast. Secretary Wallace has been called a crazy numerologist who cooks up fantastic agricultural schemes to break the country. Fanny Perkins gets it coming & going from A. F. of L. and C. I. O. Louis Johnson is supposed to be running the Army and Attorney General Murphy is out to steal poor Tom Dewey's thunder. Harold ("Donald Duck") Ickes is to Republicans a windy mad mahout...
Hull was 32 when a vacancy occurred in the Circuit Court. Governor James B. Frazier, remembering his services during the election crisis, appointed him judge-a title he still values more than any other. "They changed his name from Hull to Hell," complained the moonshiners. Once he fined his own pappy $5 for sitting in court with...
...left of the Pendergast machine pulled a squeeze play in City Council, squeezed in a 73-year-old onetime insurance man named William M. Drennon as City Manager. Thus estopped in his valiant efforts to clean up dirty Kansas City, little (5 feet, 5½ inches) Mayor Smith resigned. "Hell," said he, "it makes me hot just to think of it." Flap-jowled Mr. Drennon coolly surveyed his spacious new office, announced that he proposed to cooperate with "the efficient remains of the machine," comfortably added: "I like good living. . . . This place suits me fine...
...hundred Finns sneaked up on the Russian position and opened fire before the Russians knew they were there. . . . While these 100 Finns kept the Russians occupied from the front, 100 more made a flanking movement uphill on both sides of the Russians and the circle of Finns poured hell into the enemy. ... It was a half-hour slaughter, with unceasing machine-gun, rifle and grenade fire. Then it stopped as suddenly as it began. ... In ten minutes all the Finns had filtered back with their wounded, saying that most of the Russians had been killed but a couple of hundred...