Word: gadding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gad," gasped your correspondents, turning crimson at the thought of the forbidden fruit...
...muddling. Blimp paid reluctant attention to earth-shaking events as he waddled to the insular comfort of his club to find good sherry and claret, a deep leather chair and reassuring words in the London Times. When he spoke it was in gouty grunts, and his favorite words were "Gad, Sir." Usually this expressed his disapproval of anything which might change the way things had always been done and, by Gad, Sir, always would be done. Britons without blinders found too many Colonel Blimps in high positions...
...Gad, sir, a country like Britain with interests all over the world should mind its own business and keep away from foreigners...
...tales present the U. S. small town as a dimpling surface above dark fathoms of frustrated desires. He wrote of a typical female in Winesburg, Ohio: "At night she dreamed that he had bitten into her body and that his jaws were dripping." Of a typical male: "Tricked, by Gad, that's what I was, tricked by life and made a fool...