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Word: gosh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pulp magazine field. Many keep every issue, and a copy of the magazine's first issue often fetches $25 from collectors. Publishers soon discovered another odd fact about their readers: They are exceptionally articulate. Most of these magazines have letters columns, in which readers appraise stories. Sample: "Gosh! Wow! Boyoh-boy!, and so forth and so on. Yesiree, yesiree, it's the greatest in the land and the best that's on the stand, and I do mean THRILLING WONDER STORIES, and especially that great, magnificent, glorious, most thrilling June issue of the mosta and the besta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Amazing! Astounding! | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Bitter? Perhaps I am, but Ceil, think how wonderful everything could be if only we would try to aim in the right direction. If only the rotten branches were cut off and cast away-the 'true vine' would then have a chance to thrive. Gosh I have my dreams, I can tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...another bound as a result of his remarks. Next day Columnist Johnson cracked: "The Ick . . . is about as fair as Caiaphas, as objective as a fishwife and as courteous as a hyena. He said in his speech that he wishes I didn't love him so much. Why, gosh-darn it, I just can't help loving a man like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Calumny | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...came over to me and said" . . . You know the rest. Why go on? . . . And after she meets one she meets them all. . . . It's the same story year in and year out. "My last year's roommate left this telephone number," or "I've heard so much about you, gosh, I don't know a soul here, I'm so lonesome." . . . And so the townie gets rushed and is thrilled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/25/1939 | See Source »

Miss Wiman, who "came out" in Greenwich and then again in New York during the 1937-38 season, said she was personally a bit worried about the possibility of the show becoming a smash hit in New York. "Gosh," she said, "if it runs on into next fall, what am I going to do about the football games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nancy Wiman, Debutante Sparkle of "Stars in Your Eyes" Relates Story | 1/25/1939 | See Source »

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