Word: gee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queerest air tragedy of recent months was the crack-up of No. 1 Mexican Airman Francisco ("Pancho") Sarabia in Washington last June. One moment his stubby Gee Bee Special, the Q.E.D. was winging smoothly above the Potomac River; the next, downfluttering like a stricken hawk, it rammed its nose fast in the river bottom. By the time rescuers reached him, Sarabia was drowned. Shaken by the loss of their idol, Mexican mobs growled darkly of sabotage...
...Gee-Whizzer (See Cover...
...Henie has been called variously Queen of the Ice, Pavlova on Skates and the Nasturtium of the North. But no captioner has hit her off quite so neatly as did Broadway's knowing old verbal free skater, Damon Runyon. Sonja Henie, says admiring Mr. Runyon, is just a gee-whizzer...
...gee-whiz promotion scheme to needle circulation, Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine named one Isabel Caldwell McDougal of Greenwood, Miss., "Miss Cosmopolitan." Next issue Cosmopolite Faith Baldwin, one of the judges, twittered: "She hasn't an atom of classic beauty but she's as pretty as spring in the South. . . . She has a certain pixie charm hard to define. She reminds me a little of Helen Hayes...
...hand, and do amazing tricks at the trainer's command. But as Billy seemed so restless, Vag moved on into the big arena, to see the real show. Just as the sound of music, cracking whips, pistol shots, and cannons came to his car, Billy plucked at his coat. "Gee, I don't feel so good. Let's sit down a while. I don't want to go in there yet." On the very threshold of the promised land, Vag found himself frustrated. Muttering grimly about "a pesky younger brother," he sat down on a bench. But Billy, instead...