Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your missile terminology [March 17] ends with TGIF: "Thank God It's Friday!" Teachers have been using that phrase for years. I like much better the one, MGIM: "My Gawd, It's Monday...
...lovers were Julie (Joan of Arc) Harris, no stranger to theatrical heights, and Christopher Plummer, the Toronto-born actor who did as well for Costigan as he usually does in Shakespeare. His director was Hall of Fame's skilled George Schaefer. But the playwright had mostly himself to thank for the story, in which the lovers were parted to take their divergent paths. It was as if a theologian-poet had rewritten A Farewell to Arms, replacing its bodies with souls...
...done in the theater, Mr. Easton ... I read La Dame Souriante in French, and I admire your courage in doing it." Easton (edging away): "I'm sorry. Miss Lovelace, but we are fully cast." But a minute later she bursts into his office to say, "Thank you for taking such a personal interest," and while she's at it, she takes time to bestow her condescension on a famed actress (Joan Greenwood) who happens to be there. The actress, who does not seem to appreciate these attentions, returns them gracefully: "The theater's gain is Macy...
...wire-service man with top seniority at the White House, the U.P.'s Merriman Smith, 45, became a newsmaker of sorts himself. He cultivated his perquisites as dean of the pressroom, delighted in his vested right to end presidential press conferences with "Thank you, Mr. President." He used the phrase as the title of one of his two books on his beat, filed a weekly column called "Backstairs at the White House." Last week, after 17 years of covering U.S. Presidents, Smitty was back on his old Treasury beat, and before this week's press conference...
TGIF: lit., Thank God it's Friday, i.e., payday, end of the work week...