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Word: gawd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your May 5 "Titans of Babel": Thank gawd, someone -mainly Elsa Maxwell and Jack Paar -had the nerve (I'd rather say '"guts") to bring that poor-white-trash Walter Winchell down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Your missile terminology [March 17] ends with TGIF: "Thank God It's Friday!" Teachers have been using that phrase for years. I like much better the one, MGIM: "My Gawd, It's Monday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1958 | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...Gawd! What a Night!" Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a legitimate child of the theater. His father, James, was a matinee idol of the '80s who discovered a milk & honey of a role in The Count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Trouble with Brown | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...George Pierce Baker's famed 47-Workshop at Harvard. His first published play, The Web, was set in a squalid boardinghouse. Its three main characters (not counting an illegitimate baby in the cradle) were a prostitute, a pimp and a murderer. The play's opening line was: "Gawd! What a night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Trouble with Brown | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...wandered into the Officer's Club for a drink and bought the latest "Stars and Stripes." The headline on the sports page said, "Harvard Coach Eyes First Win Over Elis." My Gawd, thought Vag, they're playing in New Haven tomorrow. Oh, well, have to grow up some day and who'd want to be the only duffer at the 25th reunion who had never missed a Yale game? Anyway, didn't Jordan Olivar say last week that it was just another football game. The mere thought of Olivar set Vag to cursing him for that asinine Yaeger stunt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vag in Yokosuka | 12/1/1953 | See Source »

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