Word: gees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jelly & Gee Whiz. Zinssers is not the only discerning voice that has been diverted in New York, once considered a reviewer's citadel impregnable to siege. Justin Gilbert of the Mirror has been under tacit order since 1956 to pull his punches, a mandate he finds painful to obey. Last August, after a mildly unfavorable Gilbert review of The Hunters, a story of jet bomber crews, 20th Century-Fox Vice President Charles Einfeld fired off a cable to Mirror Publisher Charles McCabe, who was vacationing in Rome. In it he expressed "shocked regret shabby dismissal of our very important...
...rock of the world." She seems to find it with a Brazilian diplomat named José Ybarra-Jaeger, but a scandal of which Holly is innocent breaks over her blonde head and Ybarra-Jaeger checks out. In that heartbroken moment she is defenseless and touching. " 'But oh gee, golly goddamn,' she said, jamming a fist into her mouth like a bawling baby, I did love...
...maximum campaign contribution). He is fretful when time is lost, and his relaxation sometimes takes curious channels. One night he flew to the West Coast, spent the next day padding through art museums, flew home next night, arrived at his desk in the morning with the comment: "Gee, that was a good rest...
...because no one in her family played even though her parents owned a course in Marysville, and "I thought golf-course owners should have at least one golfer in the family." Off the course, she keeps up a constant line of chatter, whether her game is going well ("Gee, this is all a crazy dream. I can't believe it") or poorly ("Bogey, bogey, bogey. Inexcusable. What a bonehead...
...president of the world's biggest industrial company was 65, and the citizens of Flint, Mich, gathered to do him honor. As General Motors' Harlow Curtice waited in the wings of Flint's Industrial Mutual Association auditorium, an orchestra played You, Gee, But You're Wonderful, You, and colored balloons floated above the linen-covered tables. Then up stepped Curtice, the very model of a modern American optimist, with some cheery predictions for the future. Said Curtice, who has been more often right than wrong: In 1959 the auto industry will sell about 5,500.000 cars...