Modern Proverb: Life is just one damn thing after another (slight antedating 1909 July 20)

[Dan Goncharoff]

I assume you mean the Bruce Calvert who was Editor and Publisher of The
Open Road, "Official Organ of the Society of the Universal Brotherhood
of Man" from 1908 until two months short of his demise in 1940 in the
NYC subway system.

DanG

On 3/19/2010 5:05 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
> The following 1910 citation is the first attribution that I found. But
> who is Bruce Calvert?
>
> Citation: 1910 March, Wood Craft, Page 167, Column 2, The Gardner
> Publishing Co., Cleveland. (Hathi Trust full view)
>
> "I would like to have my shop free from accident of every kind, both
> to operators and to stock, but I don't suppose that state of things
> will be actually brought to pass. It's too much like a dream of the
> next world to find something in this one which is not like Bruce
> Calvert's idea of life which he says is: 'Just one damned thing after
> another.'"
>
> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ptsearch?id=mdp.39015010724832&q1=damned
> Permanent Hathi URL:
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010724832
>

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