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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Since the late election, your National Affairs section is cloyingly pish-tush: and you are right and all is right as right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...more in her element when Johnny comes marching home to break his heart in late-Victorian England -a world of hansom cabs and monocled cads, where every girl is in danger of losing something called her "reputation" and every man's favorite cuss word is a sibilant "Pish!" Still Author Steen does not fuss too much about period accuracy: her male characters speak fluent, up-to-date

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pish Pie | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...years that Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado has been around, the Japanese had never once performed it. Obviously Pish-Tush's lines ridiculed the Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: No Mikado, Much Regret | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...late Alice Duer Miller's best-selling poem of that title - which, for all its sincerity, can be most kindly described as lap-doggerel. The picture, which is a 126-minute apostrophe to Beau Geste Britons and a Beau Geste Britain, may be most kindly described as somewhat pish and more than a little posh. It may well give genuine admirers of good cinema and credible Englishmen the jimjams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 29, 1944 | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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