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...Dopey," "Dearie." Margaret herself can remember one occasion when her father took a firm stand. His daughter, whose conversation even today is generously larded with such schoolgirlisms as 'gosh," "golly" and "dopey," had suddenly taken to calling everybody "dearie" -from her grandmother to some stray cat. Harry at last warned her that every "dearie" from then on would cost her 10? out of her allowance. After losing 40? at one dinner, Margaret was cured...
...been taught to make his own bed it's a short step to teach him to vacuum the rugs and sweep the corriders. The result inevitably will be a rush of girls to marry Harvard men, a new breed of intellectuals not only ornamental to the drawing room but gosh-darned handy at helping with the housework. --from the Logan (Utah) Herald-Journal, November...
...self-confidence and leadership ("In establishing a road block, make certain to put your machine guns in positions where they will have the widest angle of fire!") Ted Wright has been readied for success in either military or civilian life. For BU freshmen, Ted has only this to say: "Gosh, most outsiders don't have any idea what this training has to offer...
...English throne. He announces that he is really Richard, Duke of York, who was supposedly murdered by his evil uncle, Richard III. As proof of his claim, Pierre flashes a ruby ring given him by the Duchess of Burgundy-whom everybody else admits is an honest-to-gosh descendant of York...
...until her husband was transferred to Washington in 1944 (as associate administrator of the Farm Security Administration). Life among the high officials, diplomats and cocktail-sippers of the capital has not damaged the Brannans' pronounced, almost frugal, simplicity. Brannan's conversation is still punctuated by "Lordy" and "gosh," and an occasional ungrammatical "he don't." He and Eda Brannan live in a plain, two-room Washington apartment, with no children and no servant. He bought his first white tie & tails for Truman's Inaugural, complains that he has had no use for them since...