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Word: gosh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roommate borrowed my last shirt today, and I haven't yet discovered the name of the laundry with whom I signed a contract. Gosh, I've only worn two shirts since I got to Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

Lazily the Vagabond rolled out of bed and peered out his window into the sunlight and the courtyard of the almost deserted House. "By gosh, he yawned, "It's a good day. The three hundred and sixty-fifty, or something like it, and I see by the Crimson they've got another Commencement coming round. I guess I'll shave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...Gosh, what a racket over in Weld. There's a girl in the room .... but the shades are down. Ha! the first chapter doesn't start till page seven. That leaves only 282 1-2 pages to read. I ought to be done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...wants to read on a day like this anyway? Let's see .... quarter to five .... page 220. 69 1-2 more pages. Here are three pages of illustrations, that makes .... Oh, no! They don't even number those pages .... gosh, what cheapskates! I can't read all that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...until it faces uphill. Then with a great clanking (gripmen traditionally play tunes on their gongs) the car rolls up the sharp grade, past the swank Fairmont and Mark Hopkins Hotels while the conductor collects 5?-fares (conductors traditionally make wisecracks. Sample: "Conductor, do you stop at the Fairmont?" "Gosh no, lady, not on my pay."). Down one side of the hill the car presently slips, while gripman and conductor heave at brakes, to famed, odoriferous Fisher|man's Wharf, where Baseballer Joe Di Maggio got his start and where his two brothers still run a stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cable Cars | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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