Word: hellingly
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...third act is just stuck on to fool you. They do have a happy ending after all, because the prince says, in substance, "To hell with dear old Latavia. Send for a minister." This is also worthy of some kind of a Pulitzer prize...
...believe in God; I do believe in Heaven or Hell; I do believe in the Bible as the inspired work of a God. All I know is that we are on this earth. The one thing we can do here is try overcome the forces of nature in order to make it a better place for the generations that come after...
...circulation in the history of journalism. They imported from Publisher Hearst, then at his yellowest, some of the country's leading scarehead artists. They told them that their serv- ices for Publisher Hearst had been the height of probity compared to what they must do now. They must hell-rake kitchens and what passed in Denver then for boudoirs, for scandal and gossip of the most personal sort. Their gleanings they must then dress with language and emphases known only to habitues of a raucous young country's fleshpots. The stories were either published? blasting reputations?or brandished with...
...Padre is a French peasant-priest. He mingles with the people, drinks with the soldiers, says: "Hell, yes, you bet your sweet life." An uncouth fellow, given to kissing barmaids in saloons, he is, nevertheless, established as a sterling upright character, for he frowns blackly upon kissing in the salon. When his good-fellowship embroils him in a Parisian night club scandal and the Bishop is about to punish him, the Cardinal pops out from behind the curtain, announces that the padre has a heart of gold. Leo Carillo does the padre, but the real hero is Poilu, high-spirited...
...need for Valentine as his mistress despite the facts that divorce from his Catholic wife was impossible; that Valentine was his perfect complement, and knew it; and that he was off for the War. In No More Parades (1925) he endured a very special and ingenious kind of hell in a base camp, where his wife, Sylvia, and scandal about himself and Valentine, turned up to torment him and to hamper his official conduct as not even red tape and a thousand childish soldiers could have done. His maddening integrity, that alone, was the factor that saved a bad local...