Word: forsooths
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Beyond these a different motif enters into the stories which follow. Formerly the dream element gave us a vision of fair women or of a knock-'em-down contest between lions and dragons. Forsooth, we do those things better in our day, when on the stage you will find cubistic representations of the sub-conscious mind in action. Pop the lights on and off, revolve them in circles of green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick...
Home from collecting in South and Central America for the Museum of the American Indian, A. Hyatt Verrill of Manhattan related of Indians living inland from Oldbank, Panama, that they employ the Elizabethan expressions "Gadzooks," "forsooth," "marry," "yea," "nay," "thee," "ye." Explanation: in 1680, Buccaneer Batholomew Sharp sailed to Panama with 350 lusties in The Most Blessed Trinity. They looted, killed, burned out the Spaniards, founded Oldbank, where today live many a Sharp, many a Coxon, Hawkins, Ringrose (names of Sharp's lieutenants...
...Mark you, also, that birth control is heralded as a benedicton to the poor, because, forsooth, the poor have too many children and are largely responsible for defectives. Never was there cast upon the humble homes of our people a more offensive insult. Children are welcomed among the poor and the humble as angels and are treasured as jewels...
...crown one's mortification, our friends the English look us over and volunteer the information that Americans are a lawless lot. Lawless, forsooth Americans are the most law-ridden, law-encumbered people on the earth. With frenzied politicians catering first to the prejudices of one group having the natural breadth and average intelligence of a CroMagnon man and again to the hysteria of some other group with somewhat the same qualifications, a maze of laws has been constructed which is impossible to respect if it is understood and still more impossible to obey if it is not understood. To make...
...certain Kansas normal school. Quite in accordance with the old adage about the cat and the mice, the embryo teachers, while their headmaster was away from home for a few days, celebrated their little vacation by playfully tossing a couple of faculty members into the campus lake because, forsooth, they would not be forced into laying planks for a board running track...