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...Forsooth, if I never read another, that film review of The Black Knight by your Camelot correspondent [TIME, Nov. 8] is the finest piece of nonsense I have ever laid eyes on. If that doesn't stop these medieval cowboy films then nothing will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...Forsooth, said the student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Crime | 12/22/1951 | See Source »

...declares his belief that you resemble a dope or a dumbski or a quisby or a mullethead, that won't be your cue to poke his snoot or even yell for the cops. Instead . . . you should square off and announce with dignity and eloquence that your antagonist is, forsooth, a beanhead, a booby, a chump, a dingbat, a flumadiddy, a filbert, a peanutbrain, a rednecked slob, a rumdum, a stupe, a tinpot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Dec. 20, 1948 | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...York City's blizzard of '47 (TIME, Jan. 5) was largely a memory by last week; but a lot of loaded snowballs were still being thrown-mostly at the weatherman. The New York Times sternly demanded to know what had happened to forecasts lately ("occasional snow," forsooth, on the day of the 25.8-incher). And what, asked the Times, was being done about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dishonored Prophets | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...unkindest smirk of all lit up the Montreal Herald: "We are presently beaver-busy with uplift and the dusting off of our own morals. Sights high, eyes on the target, we are out to blast the canard that Montreal was ever a sinful city. . . . 'Toronto the Good' forsooth. Move over, chum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Move Over, Chum | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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