Word: pshaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pshaw, it's only four years. I can stand anything for four years," said Henrietta Nesbitt when she became housekeeper of the White House in 1933. But Mrs. Nesbitt, who was "pushing 60" when she became "First Housekeeper of the Land," stayed in office, like her boss, for 13 years. Unlike the memoirs of other members of President Roosevelt's entourage, her diary of those years has no political importance whatever-for the simple reason that Mrs. Nesbitt was much too busy feeding the politicians to bite off more than she could chew herself. Nonetheless, her prattling, naive...
...Pshaw. In Texas, a WASP, flying a ferry route, got so hot even at high altitude that she stripped to the waist, hung the garments on a peg, lost them to the wind, radioed Waco for help, was met at the field by a ground crew with averted eyes and a WAC bearing a shirt...
...refer to the Harvard student, touched by the first soft breath of spring, throwing open his window with the cry, "Oh, Rinehart!" (TIME, March 30), you would have your readers believe that was some obscure Harvardism for "Pshaw!" or "Alack-aday!" Actually, it is nothing of the kind...
...couple of months, while special investigators, the FBI and consular agents looked up old records, passed along clues, checked two passports, one Swedish, one U.S. Last week the blonde was still in Rio, still as flashy in the nightclubs and cocktail bars as she had been in Mexico. But, pshaw, she was only old Peter Fahrney's granddaughter, Merry ("the Madcap"), from Chicago. Remember, she got married half a dozen times or so? Playboys and counts and barons-calls herself the Countess Cassini now. No more harm in her than in the cough syrup old Peter used to peddle...