When Did People Stop Using Expletives "Gadzooks" and "Zounds"?

[Labdad]

@DHMO

It wasn’t so much an exclamation, as it was the ultimate pejorative of a list of authors of “dirty books” (Chaucer! Rabelais! Ballllzac!) which Marian Paroo (Shirley Jones) the librarian was recommending to the youngsters in town.

The character was the wife of the Mayor of River City (Paul Ford), Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn.

You watch your phraseology! (Mayor Shinn in reply to Tommy’s “Great Honk!”)