Word: gosh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policeman. At the finish of the mile-and-an-eighth race, the handsome bay stallion had equaled another world record-the 1:47 3/5 that Indian Broom hung up at Tanforan in 1936. Jockey Eldon Nelson dismounted, stared at the fractional times posted on the odds board and exclaimed: "Gosh almighty...
Track Coach Jaakko Mikkola issued an SOS for freshman pole vaulters, high jumpers, and broad jumpers yesterday. "My gosh, we have nobody, in these events," he reported. "We have a pole vaulter doing about nine feet and that's all." Interested candidates may contact Jaakko at Dillon Field House or in Briggs Cage any afternoon between...
...success as a movie star, "I feel good singing it. I don't think, 'Gee! I'm the greatest singer.' " Neither does Miss Grable think, gee! she is a great actress: "I just say and do the things I do every day of my life. Gosh, it could be me up there on the screen...
...neighbors crowded around as Duplessis sat in a corner chain-smoking and reading telegrams of congratulations. "We goes up!" bellowed a little butcher by the name of Dollar Bacon, "Maurice is the best we ever had. For French, English, Polish and every kind of peoples, he is the best. Gosh, that Maurice...
This oldtime, gosh-all-Friday comedy-drama is served up by people who obviously admire Writer-Director Preston Sturges and his cynical gift for playing both ends of a cliche against the audience's middle. Nothing is too stale or too simpleminded: a sheriff (William Demarest) trying to be heroic with one leg in a low-comedy plaster cast; a brat tormenting the neighborhood with trombone practice. But most of it is quite funny, and besides his feeling for slapstick and travesty, Director William Russell knows how to shade in some sharp authenticity. The most redolent blend of realism...