Word: egad
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...Egad! My subscription's run out," he cried TIMElessly-Daniel E. McGuire, Chicago...
...Egad ! What a cover! Perchance-did Artist Artzybasheff dine on slings and arrows the night he dreamed...
...miser, accidentally kicks up a skull in the woods and is admonished by a guardian devil named Old Scratch. His wife loses body and soul to Old Scratch, but wily Tom sells his soul only, and for hard cash. "Lend the money," the devil suggests, "at 2% a month." "Egad," replies Tom, "I'll charge...
...public property, began sending reporters into the lecture halls. When Surgeon John Abernethy complained that he was misquoted, the Lancet offered a devastating verbatim sample of his tutorial style: "I'll be hanged if erysipelas is not always a result of a disordered state of the digestive organs . . . Egad, it is a traveling disease . . If it be seated in an unimportant part, in the name of God let it go there!" Abernethy promptly slapped an injunction on the Lancet, and the magazine won a court decision that henceforth medical lectures were to be regarded as public property...
...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...