goldarn

“No goldarn signs,” he mutters.

This, and his "underlying note of friendly warmth," are what Putnam points to with pride when listeners write in, as they constantly do, saying: "You send me to bed thinking goldarn, things are bad, but they're going to get better."

But I wouldn't care a goldarn, if Ma hadn't been sending me for neuralgia medicine, and hay fever stuff all winter, when she wanted to get rid of me.

That's too hootin' goldarn many for anybody to stand, by ninety-nine per cent., so Bill slams him one.

Want to break your cussed neck, goldarn ye?'