Word: forsooth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent of displaying and offering for sale the cards ... the defendant is engaged in mercantile business. . . . Does a shopkeeper . . . owe no duty to a customer to sell honest goods because, forsooth-Trinity argues-'a stranger, a licensee, of his own free will' comes into the open store ... to buy a can of baked beans labeled . . . Genuine Boston Baked Beans, pays 10? for it, takes it home, and, on opening, finds it to be spoiled stewed prunes-has he no right to recover the price paid under a false label...
...plaint is not that you picked Roosevelt . . . but that your reasons for doing so were the silliest that have ever blotted TIME'S pages. You picked Roosevelt, because, forsooth, more people than ever before voted the straight Democratic ticket. Why . . . didn't you say simply that you picked Roosevelt as ''Man of the Year" because, in spite of the tremendous pressure under which he labored, he has remained the same cultured, affable, and above all, sane gentleman that was elected President in 1932, and who during 1934 has done his level best to pull the country...
...near future, and with those of his family and the falling market on the other, a little light divertissement is well in order. Such is to be found at the Metropolitan this week, where Ruth Chatterton holds forth in "The Rich Are Always With Us," (an optimistic title, forsooth), and where La Montemegro and others provide a far better than usual stage show...
...Conditions are the same this year only worse. The result is that the class of '35 in too doggone cocky. There are a few exceptions of course, but the majority need to have the concelt paddled out of them. It was good for us two years ago and, forsooth, it would be just as good for them now. Furthermore, as far as I know freshman rules never hurt anybody very much. I would like to see them come back. What th' heck...