Word: guid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guidance is the answer," said Mr. Harriman. "We did not see how we could afford several thousand dollars to get our equipment from large supply houses, so we consulted God." The Groupers had 20 caddies carry tables for nothing from the town hall to the mess tent. "Guid ance," said Grouper Harriman. "That's what made me walk on the golf course just at that moment." The man in charge of the camp canteen, one James Mariano who claimed he had been a "drunk, pick pocket and strong-arm man," told an Assembly audience that "the canteen is directed...
Most people liked the late Bill Fallon, but not even his bitterest friend ever called him unco guid. Author Fowler has put this sensationally journalistic biography of the lately dead (1927) Manhattan lawyer into the form of a novel; it reads like a super-Sunday-supplement-story...
Meantime Judy had been handed over to Falconer's unco guid sister Gertrude and was not having a very happy time of it. Judy had never been told who her real father was or what was wrong with her, but at 13 she had begun to worry. When Falconer arrived in England Judy was whisked off to a farm in the country, where she was made the slavey of an ill-natured old nurse who treated her like a moral leper. When one night in a fit of rage the nurse explained to Judy what a bastard was, told...