Word: gadding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taste." Playwright Ben Hecht, who used the words "bitch" and "bastard" in one of his plays, was forced to change them to "dame" and "buzzard." Lindsay-Crouse's famed Life With Father rang repeatedly with the exclamation. "Oh, God!" In Boston it had to be changed to "Oh, Gad...
...measurements, gravely announced that there was a 2-in. sag and assorted undulations on a wicket at hallowed Lord's Cricket Ground in London. The sober London Daily Telegraph splashed the unsettling news on Page One, easing Kuwait into the background, while the London Daily Express blared: BY GAD, SIR, IT'S FULL or BUMPS...
...Guards ? Gad sir! Greys. MRS. J. BELDING...
...more or less unequal to his ambitions in every respect. His pseudo-Congreve is often pretty good--it is certainly one of the chief pleasures the play provides--but it often sounds self-conscious and sometimes resembles a parody of a bad historical novel. (A line like, "By gad, sir, she's as pretty a wench as ever I bedded!" seems right out of Forever Under.) Moreover, in his attempt to expand the scope of the eighteenth-century style to accommodate his expanded purpose, he resorts to frequent bursts of the stiffest, most intolerably pretentious sort of "fine writing...