Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...were working. One of them did not know the name of the town in which he was born, and another did not know how old he was. When asked for their voting precinct, many of them had never voted. General comment was: "I never bother with voting. Why the hell should I? They wouldn't do nothing for me anyway even if I should vote for 'em." There were wisecracks of course, typically Yankee-about the "red tape" of registration, the "propaganda" in the little bulletin of instructions given to each man, about the message by Franklin Roosevelt...
Gene Tunney: ". . . I'd rather go down to hell with Wendell Willkie than to the White House with Roosevelt...
...hell!" The speech was over. Announcers again smoothly announced that not C. I. O. but the National Committee of Democrats-for-Willkie had put up the $45,000 for John Lewis' 30 minutes. Burly William Stevenson, a Detroit tool & die maker, handed a wire to a Postal Telegraph clerk: ". . . As far as we are concerned, you can go to hell." The clerk demurred; Mr. Stevenson reluctantly compromised on "go to Hades." C. I. O. autoworkers roared, cursed, rebelled. So did bigwigs in Mr. Lewis' mine union, in C. I. O. Vice President (and Defense Commissioner) Sidney Hillman...
...difficult man is Commentator Priestley. Feverishly insistent on getting his just due in BBC publicity, he once raised hell for two days after the London Times neglected to list his program. On another occasion, sharing a 15-minute overseas talk with Actor Leslie Howard, he stomped angrily around the studio, trumpeted within Howard's hearing that he couldn't write a good script for a program shared by "an actor fella." Always surcharged with temperament, he arrives at BBC headquarters at 8 or 9 for his overseas broadcasts, sulks fiercely if program directors and other minor officials...
...When three correspondents were reported missing after the Battle of Vicksburg, General Sherman remarked: "That's good. We'll have dispatches now from hell before breakfast...