My fourth-grade sadist of a teacher would have a fit if anyone in the class said "Jeez", "Cripes", or "Gosh", because according to her, that was the same as saying Jesus, Christ, or God. She'd say that's what you were really meaning to say "in your heart". I don't remember whether golly, criminy or gee-whillikers was on the no-no list.
Since Jeez, Cripes and Gosh were common every-day language in the 50's, we got in trouble a lot.
She'd go apoplectic at "lousy" and "swell", too. Our joke was that that was swell way to get off to a lousy start with Mrs. H.
