Word: gees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Engstrom admitted being unnerved by a little girl who jogged along beside him for a chat in Newton. "Gee," she said, "you don't seem like a Harvard man." When asked why not, she replied, "Because they don't talk to common people...
Captain China (Paramount) is a gee-whiz sea yarn with a barnacle-covered script. It casts John Payne* as a tough ex-skipper. He is out to get the scoundrel (Lon Chancy Jr.) who locked him in his cabin, innocently sleeping off a drunk, while the treacherous first mate (Jeffrey Lynn) ran his ship onto a reef and left it sinking. As a passenger aboard another ship carrying the villains, Payne gets his revenge during a China Sea voyage marked by gory fisticuffs, a typhoon and romantic dalliance with a supposedly exotic tramp (Gail Russell...
...Gee, she don't look the type that would bump off her husband, does she?" asked one of the wives leaving court to cook supper, as Carpenter Noack carried his daughter from the courtroom. "I don't know about that," answered another. "She looks screwy...
...Michigan, young (39) Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, determined to succeed himself, was mixing with the common folk and earning a reputation as the best square-dance caller ever to stand alongside a fiddler ("Lady go gee, Gent go haw, Right allemande, just Pa and Ma"). Williams danced the polka with the Poles in Hamtramck, the czardas with the Hungarians in Ecorse. The Republicans, a bit breathless, felt a good deal like wallflowers. ¶ In California, Jimmy Roosevelt wound up a two-week "dry run" in his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor. On street corners in 51 Northern...
Outside Derr's, a girl stopped and peered in at the Hucklebuckers. "Do I like those drapes," she said. "Gee, they're like real dads...