Word: gadding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three in the morning when Vag strode into the room on Thursday. Having placed his water skis above the fireplace and his aqua-lungs in the closet, he greeted me; "Gad but it is disgusting to be back...
...symphony orchestra on the first barge, and cameras with telescopic lenses spotted ashore to zoom in from the Empire State, the Statue of Liberty, the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge on a particular scene and with a natural finish as it turns into a water ballet, and they all drown! Gad! What a 90 minutes we have here...
...special Civic Education Department opened 160 centers, taught rudimentary courses in "What are your rights?" and "What are your duties?" in 218 settlements; new vocational schools graduated 61,000 immigrants, including Yemenite welders who man the new $5,000,000 pipe factory at Yuval Gad, carefully tucking their side curls behind their ears before putting on their helmets. In the new immigration towns such as Acre and Jaffa, authorities mix the newcomers to speed integration. One apartment house may hold families from as many countries as there are apartments. Some Europeans complain of being put next door to "blacks...
Died. Emile Gauguin, 81, retired construction engineer, elder son of Painter Paul Gauguin and Mette Gad, the Danish wife whom Gauguin deserted to follow a painting career; of bronchial pneumonia; in Englewood. Fla. Although he owned only one of his father's works, a pencil sketch of his mother, Emile Gauguin staunchly defended his father's reputation, in 1941 threatened to sue United Artists if they used any Gauguin art in the movie version of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence, claiming that it would identify the disreputable hero with his father (see BOOKS...
Gauguin used to wail, in later years-much as a lifer's wife might wail: "I had no idea he was going to Sing Sing!" Mette Gad was a Danish civil servant's daughter, a handsome, white-skinned Juno (Gauguin favored husky women) who met her fate on a jaunt to Paris in 1873. Paul Gauguin was a strapping fellow with a bull neck, a great beak of a nose, and hooded, blue-green eyes. His stockbroker's black business suit sat strangely on him because he looked like a pirate chief and walked with the rolling...