Word: gadding
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...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...
...soft, indeed, were the tones of the British Army's crooning that they caused audible snorts in the letters-to-the-editor columns of Britain's press. These by-Gad-sirs huffed that U. S. jazz and crooners had sapped the grand traditions of martial music. Said they: "The whole difference [between 1914 and now] is that then we called men 'lads' and now we call lads 'men.' . . . Little Sir Echo is in waltz time, and no army ever waltzed its way to victory...
...Gad-Sir-the-Empire...
...puppet press masquerading as democratic, have yet to realize that they are on the outside looking in. Apart from occasional darts to the Left, dragging a red herring, and aside from plenty of cockney and dialectal comedy, which is really a "front," the British Broadcasting Corp. is essentially Gad-Sir-the-Empire Tory, and uncompromisingly for all that the Empire does not mean to Britain's underprivileged millions...