Vulgar words in Success - A Novel (Page 1)
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"Then they'd cuss it out and let it pass, and the dear old pin-head public would eat it up."
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And when she gets into a railroad wreck and disappears from the world for weeks, and her supposed fiancé, the heir to a dukedom, makes an infernal ass of himself over it all and practically gives himself away to the papers, she's big news."
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"Damn you, you're right!" snapped the veteran.
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Whoring after strange gods.
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"Oh, damn!" said Banneker fervently.
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You're supposed not to care for them.... You've never tried to make love to me even the least little bit, Ban.
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"Damn The Sphere!" exploded the other.
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"Now you're laughing at me, damn you, Enderby."
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Sheffer--who knew what makes business men laugh--pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky.
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Severance nicknamed him "the Oracle of Boobs," and for short he became known as the "Booblewarbler," for there were times when he burst into verse, strongly reminiscent of the older hymnals.
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He also said "Damn!"
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"Damn him," said Banneker quietly.
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"Damn it!" he growled.
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As The Record was bitter upon reform, its proprietor having been sadly disillusioned in youth by a lofty but abortive experiment in perfecting human nature from which he never recovered, Bunny lost no opportunity to damn all reformers.
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"Damn lie," remarked Poultney Masters equably.
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"If you're going to be a whore," he said deliberately, "play the whore's game.