Word: gadding
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...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...
...House of Commons, the new Labor Government proposed a five-year extension of the tight wartime controls on labor, prices, transport, building. Tories Gad-sirred that such stuff would leave Parliament "nothing more than a Reichstag." At home recovering from a sore throat, Winston Churchill croaked of "drastic departures from our . . . way of life. . . ." The bright beacon on Big Ben's tower burned late that night, telling home-going Britons that their Parliament was still at work. Members stoked themselves with snacks and drinks. After midnight came the inevitable Labor victory: 306 votes...
...same meeting the club elected new officers for the spring term. Succeeding Thomas H. Gad '44 of the V-12 as president is Thomas H. Phillips, Jr. '47 NROTC. Also elected to office were Charles F. Mansfield '47 as vice-president and Seabury G. Quinn, Jr. '47 as secretary. William E. Sullivan '45 and Hibbard G. James '46 were elected to the executive committee...