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...corners; we used him largely in relief last year; and he is the smartest of the group.... Cook? Well, Cook has more stuff than Johnson--a good curve-ball and a pretty good fast one, too.... The others? Well, they haven't shown us a lot yet.... My gosh if anything happens to those first two follows (cook and Johnson), the games will last till after dark...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

Patty (Maggie MacNamara): "Really, you men! You just don't know how to sew buttons on coats! Vickie's all right and is my roommate, but gosh, honestly, do you plan to seduce me? I mean don't you think a girl should worry about her virtue...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: The Moon Is Blue | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...Death to the Cathedral" recalls the story of a Catholic who, after seeing Manhattan's Cardinal Spellman rush into the private office of famed real estate man William Zeckendorf, gasped, "Oh my gosh, there goes St. Patrick's Cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1958 | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

With a surprised "Oh, no," and a lusty "Gosh awful," Patriarchitect Frank Lloyd Wright, 89, summering at his home and workshop in Spring Green, Wis., recoiled from photos of a ten-story addition to Tokyo's Wright-designed Imperial Hotel, said the annex' streamlined "International Style" was "neither international nor style." The labyrinthine Imperial, completed in 1922, had withstood the great 1923 Kwanto earthquake, while much of Tokyo fell to rubble. World War II's firebombings did not destroy it. But now, according to Wright, "Westernization" had effected what war and seism could not; there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 11, 1958 | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...murder, no undue violence-a girl can be tied up. but that's all. There's no gunplay by our heroes. No matter how hard they're pressed, they win by their wits." Neither is there any swearing. The Bobbsey twins used to say an occasional "Gosh" or "Golly." but when a reader protested that these were distant euphemisms for God ("And. by gosh." says Svenson in surprise, "she was right!"), "Gosh" and "Golly" disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grinch & Co. | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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