Word: gadding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their tooth & nail fight against nationalization of their industry (TIME, Aug. 29), Britain's leading sugar refiners, Tate & Lyle, were helped by a champion as ubiquitous and eloquent as Colonel Blimp ("Gad, sir, the Americans should be forced to pay us the money we owe them!") or long-nosed, war-born Mr. Chad ("Wot, no bacon & eggs?"). The free-enterprise champion was Mr. Cube, a personable lump of sugar invented by a 30-year-old ex-newspaperman and psychological warfare expert named Roy Hudson. On millions of sugar cartons, thousands of posters, pamphlets and ration-book covers, Mr. Cube...
Swift Nicks, another highwayman "invented and perpetrated," according to Miss de la Torre, "the first faked alibi on record." He robbed a gentleman at Gad's Hill near London at 4 in the morning, and by hard riding reached York (180 miles away) in the afternoon; "put off his Boots and riding Cloaths, and went dress'd as if be had been an Inhabitant of the Place to the Bowling-green," where he asked the Lord Mayor what time it was. Later a jury acquitted him, on his lordship's swearing to his alibi. King Charles...
...Allens rarely gad about. One night a week they take in a movie. The other evenings, while Fred works, Portland reads or knits in bed-an old vaudeville custom. They rarely entertain. Allen's best friends are "just plain people"-barbers, shoeshine boys, paper boys, waiters, delicatessen storekeepers. With them, says Comic Henry Morgan, he is "a reluctantly amiable guy." From them, he collects an authentic U.S. idiom...
...speaks of the Catholic "submissiveness" as being the broad base of Catholic power in the U.S. GAD!! Does he really believe we Catholics are such a powerful political force? Doesn't he remember Alfred E. Smith, a REAL American Catholic, and how the "powerful" Catholic vote DID NOT sweep Smith into the presidency...
...Ternan and their resultant son than that of Nelson and Lady Hamilton and their daughter. My father was like a madman. He did not seem to care a damn what happened to any of us." Mrs. Dickens was expelled (with a pension) from her husband's home at Gad's Hill, and her sister, Georgina, who was friendly to Ellen Ternan, was made mistress of the house...