Vulgar words in This Side of Paradise (Page 1)
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"That _damn_ old fool!" he cried wildly.
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I'm the prey of my friends, damn it--do their lessons, get 'em out of trouble, pay 'em stupid summer visits, and always entertain their kid sisters; keep my temper when they get selfish and then they think they pay me back by voting for me and telling me I'm the 'big man' of St. Regis's.
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"Oh-h-h-h-h She works in a Jam Factoree And--that-may-be-all-right But you can't-fool-me For I know--DAMN--WELL That she DON'T-make-jam-all-night!
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I'd like to bring a sardine to the prom in June, for instance, but I wouldn't do it unless I could be damn debonaire about it--introduce her to all the prize parlor-snakes, and the football captain, and all that simple stuff."
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"There's Marylyn De Witt--she's pretty, got a car of her own and that's damn convenient; there's Sally Weatherby--she's getting too fat; there's Myra St. Claire, she's an old flame, easy to kiss if you like it--" "What line do you throw 'em?" demanded Kerry.
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"Shut off the damn graphophone," Amory cried, rather red in the face.
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"Damn it all," he whispered aloud, wetting his hands in the damp and running them through his hair.
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"I'm very damn wet!" he said aloud to the sun-dial.
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The boy who writes the lyrics stands in the corner, biting a pencil, with twenty minutes to think of an encore; the business manager argues with the secretary as to how much money can be spent on "those damn milkmaid costumes"; the old graduate, president in ninety-eight, perches on a box and thinks how much simpler it was in his day.
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"Damn!" muttered Isabelle, punching the pillow into a luxurious lump and exploring the cold sheets cautiously.
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"Damn!"
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In his own crowd Amory saw men kept out for wearing green hats, for being "a damn tailor's dummy," for having "too much pull in heaven," for getting drunk one night "not like a gentleman, by God," or for unfathomable secret reasons known to no one but the wielders of the black balls.
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"Dick was driving and he wouldn't give up the wheel; we told him he'd been drinking too much--then there was this damn curve--oh, my _God!_..." He threw himself face downward on the floor and broke into dry sobs.
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"Damn!"
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"Damn her!" he said bitterly, "she's spoiled my year!"
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But here's a neighbor on my right, An Eager Ass, considered bright; Asker of questions.... How he'll stand, With earnest air and fidgy hand, After this hour, telling you He sat all night and burrowed through Your book.... Oh, you'll be coy and he Will simulate precosity, And pedants both, you'll smile and smirk, And leer, and hasten back to work.... 'Twas this day week, sir, you returned A theme of mine, from which I learned (Through various comment on the side Which you had scrawled) that I defied The _highest rules of criticism_ For _cheap_ and _careless_ witticism.... 'Are you quite sure that this could be?'
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But Eager Ass, with what he's sent, Plays havoc with your best per cent.
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"There's a natural damn fool," commented Amory.
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On the train for Princeton he saw no one he knew, only a crowd of fagged-looking Philadelphians.
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Burne's a damn good talker, and so obviously sincere that you can't get anywhere with him.
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"Well, I'll be darned!" exclaimed Amory in surprise, "that's the last thing I expected."
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"Time, damn it, and the historian.
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"Damn!"
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"Damn!"
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She stumbles on the tulle and her "damn" is quite audible.
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"Fella I was with's a damn fool," confided the blue-eyed woman.
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"It's _her_ hanging on, damn it!
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"It didn't matter a damn to me whether Harebell's flour was any better than any one else's.
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So they had turned into the woods and rode for half an hour with scarcely a word, except when she whispered "Damn!" at a bothersome branch--whispered it as no other girl was ever able to whisper it.
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"Now then," began Olson, producing a note-book, "I want your real names--no damn John Smith or Mary Brown."
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"You're gettin' off light--damn light--but--" "Come on," said Amory briskly.
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Alec didn't give the waiter a tip, so I guess the little bastard snitched."
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"Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man," he said slowly.
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If it's only a blue ribbon, I damn near believe they'll work just as hard.