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Word: ey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...After eight months she filed for divorce, but changed her mind. Admitted Brown: "I don't know why she took me back, because I'm a beast. I bought a monkey as a pet and the mon ey bit her. I pulled the phone out by the roots . . . pushed her in the swimming pool . . . turned the fire hose on her friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst v. Brown | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Grishkin is nice: her Russian ey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Mr. Eliot | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...cried; but the crusade was to roll and swell beyond even Jefferson's wildest dreams. The nation passed through the age of the one-room district schoolhouse, of the birch rod and the rattan cane, the primer, Noah Webster's famous speller and the Me Guff ey readers. Ever since the indefatigable Horace Mann had stormed through Massachusetts preaching the cause of better schools ("In a Republic, Ignorance is a Crime!"), successive generations of young Americans had been learning the three Rs as Dart of their birthright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pattern of Necessity | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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