Word: gosh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article quoting Gov. Collins-"Florida stands on three sturdy legs. Tourism. Industry. Agriculture"-brings to mind a conversation with a Florida taxi driver. He said, "Florida has three assets. Oranges. Alligators. Tourists. And by gosh, we skin...
...Peeperisms. But on his second chance, Funnyman Cox chiefly tried for laughs in a masochistic spectacle of eating crow and sadly cackling over the original egg he laid. Muttered a disconsolate Dunesman: "He laid another egg. There weren't enough clients to pay for the lights." Rejoined Cox: "Gosh!" He soon learned that even eggs can have a silver lining. His hastily hired replacement, Cinecomedian Mickey (The Atomic Kid) Rooney, showed up, took one look at mild-mannered Wally Cox, signed him up for a forthcoming Rooney Enterprises movie, Gentleman's Gentleman. The paradoxical script calls for Rooney...
...note that brought his last despairing cry for rein forcements. "Oh, look at this," cried the President, espying "Little Phil" Sheridan's gold-plated Winchester. Then, through an open doorway, the President spotted the flaming-sword emblem of his Supreme Headquarters in Europe, and he blurted: "Oh, by gosh, there's my old flag. I'd forgotten I sent that up here." Afterward, the President noted to a couple of cadets that the day was June 6, "a big day in my life. This is Dday, the day we attacked across the Channel...
...bridge at Lo Wu and stepped into freedom. Among the first to greet them was Father Ambrosio Poletti, a Roman Catholic missionary based in Hong Kong, who offered them a pack of Lucky Strikes. Said Lieut. Colonel Edwin Heller, 36, of Wynnewood, Pa., as he lit up: "Gosh! Remember them...
...Gosh, it was good to be in a place where winter was really winter, Vag thought to himself. Back in Cambridge there hadn't been a flake of snow all fall, and Christmas at home had been more like spring. But New Year's at Lake Placid was different, like in the old days further south when the polar ice cap had not started to shrink...