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...Bible from the shelf and read the Twenty-Third Psalm. Then I put up a wee bit prayer. Then I take a wee drap o' whiskey to steady my nerves. Then I get in bed and pull up the covers. And then I tell Hitler to go to hell...
...battleships in a pea-soup fog, he heard a destroyer's warning siren, somewhere off his bow. Promptly, without consulting his fleet commander, he ordered the line to stop. Hauled up on the carpet for breach of regulations, he exploded: "If I couldn't see, how the hell could the flagship at the end of the line?" He was officially rebuked, unofficially applauded...
Tommy Hart likes to hear that he has a wicked temper. But he lets it go only when he wants to. He is hell on efficiency, cuts loose with a fine blast of profanity when his crew shows signs of landlubberly carelessness. In the wardrooms of the Asiatic Fleet, he is known as tough but rated a good man to sail with when trouble looms. "In normal times," commented one officer recently, "I might like to be under someone a little easier than Admiral Hart, but in times like this in the Far East, I would much prefer...
...there are enough intelligent people in New York City and environs to support a station that shuns soap opera, funnymen and corny commercials, WQXR has whooped up its earnings from $9,174 in 1936 (when the station graduated from experimental ranks) to $177,074 in 1940. Just for the hell of it, Mr. Hogan augmented WQXR's income in 1939 with $20,000 picked up by selling Hogan-devised sets to WQXR listeners. He was an associate of Radio Inventor Lee de Forest...
...jampacked meeting on how "current world conditions" affect U.S. women, Publisher Thomas Beck (Crowell-Collier) cried: "The hell with Johnny and his spinach; there are going to be many substitutes for spinach. . . . Are cooking and sewing going to win the war? No! You are going to have to work like men. Industry will win the war. ... If we had less sex distinction, there would be fewer divorces. . . My current wife was making $12,000 a year before she married me, and this ability of hers to do all the things I can do makes her my past, present and future...