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Word: egad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father always swore when he cut himself with his old-fashioned chin mower. I said: 'Papa, if it hurts you so much to shave, why do you shave?' He replied, 'Egad, I don't know.' And he never shaved again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Egad! | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...Harlows, and witches, Salem-style perchance, swish about by broommobile. So 'tis meet that Macbeth's witches come down Cambridge way. Three eerie figures meet in the middle of the Harvard camp . . . egad again? Yard. Zounds! 'Tis Kopp, Margarita and Jacunski, magicians all, of the Crimson Clan, meet to devise a potent potion not to the liking of McLaughry...

Author: By C. C. P., | Title: Whirling Bill Shakespeare Chants Spectral High Praise Of Conant's Clan With Tourney at Hanover in Mind | 10/31/1946 | See Source »

...swam the Potomac, the Susquehanna. The moon rose in "nocturnal majesty." Still they galloped. "My British mind never properly grasped the dimensions of North America," panted the Duke; "are we still in Pennsylvania?" "That was Baltimore," said someone, as they flashed past a large town. "Egad, what a nest of ugly peasants!" snapped the Duke. In the "cold, caliginous predawn" the huntsmen forded the Delaware. By afternoon they were thundering through the heart of New Jersey. At nightfall Hugo's mare grabbed the fox with her teeth, tossed it ten feet into the air. The world's longest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Big Fox | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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