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...should set a good example to the young. That is not an effective way to teach. They are not in need of examples of flippancy, rudeness and insult. Dr. Butler could have ignored the challenge, but why publicly insult Mr. Upshaw? He says the Congressman's nickname is Pshaw and hence he is not regarded as carrying on the tradition of Toombs, Stephens, Ben Hill and Gordon. Does that follow? Is one responsible for his name or his nickname? The reference to the 14th and 15th Amendments is as applicable to all the Congressmen and Senators of all southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 26, 1925 | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

...Georgia Congressman Upshaw is not regarded as carrying on the tradition of Toombs, Stephens, Ben Hill and Gordon, since his nickname is 'Pshaw.' That he should speak of law enforcement above a whisper seems to show a lack of any sense of humor, since the enforcement of the 14th and 15th Amendment would certainly de prive him of a seat in the House of Representatives and give him an opportunity for usefulness in spraying the boll weevil on a Georgia cotton plantation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: PROHIBITION | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...made a record for itself last spring which deserves substantial recognition, inasmuch as it won every game of the spring series. It has unfortunately become the custom here at Harvard for men rather to look down upon this excellent sport and to say with a would-be-knowing air, "Pshaw, the cricket eleven never does anything!" Even were this assertion true-which it is not-whose fault is it? We would like to put the question, "What has ever been done among the students at large to encourage or help those who are trying to introduce the game of cricket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/14/1887 | See Source »

Some of the freshmen have started the unpleasant trick of applauding class mates who come in late in the rhetoric lectures. -DAILY CRIMSON. -Pshaw! We've been doing that this long time. -[Brunohian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/21/1885 | See Source »

...pshaw! to think that Maud, who's truly sweet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

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