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Word: fi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blue butter, a'stutter, a'flutter, no mutter, no matter, no clatter, that picture, that stricture gives rise, not wisely but unwisely, to the crack, to the smack, fee-fi-io-flack, It's a nose, it's a Nose, it's a NOSE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...thanks for his letter to you, published in the April 30 issue of TIME, where he gives you a well merited thrashing for your bad taste in publishing uninteresting scandal about two unimportant boys just because they happen to have a prominent father,* and then call it "National Affairs"! Fi Done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Governors | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Sound advice, from a certain diminutive Carnoustie man who teaches golf near Chicago, to persons going to golf at Troon, is this: "Gae oot on the fi-rrst nine o' Troon, an' gae in on the second nine o' Pr-restwuk. Hae yer lonch, an' gae oot on the fir-rst nine o' Pr-restwuk, comin' in on the last nine o' Troon. Aye, an' ye'll pay only one gr-reen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Troon | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

Headlined The New York World: "Fee! Fi! Fo! Fum! List to the Numbing Tale of the Tiger and the Welshman as Spun by Wickham Steed. ... No One Else Ever Heard of It." While they awaited the book, U. S. newspaper readers reflected that, of all journalists at the Peace Conference, whilom Editor Steed was probably as near the inner machinery as any; that of all temperaments assembled at Versailles, those of Lloyd George and "Tiger" Clemenceau were perhaps the fieriest; that if such a quarrel had come to pass, it must certainly have been hushed up; that of all reputations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spat? | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...hundred and fifty books for $16.90. Shakespeare, Dickens, Molière, Byron, Tom Paine, Havelock Ellis?philosophy, history, literature, poetry?How to Live 100 Years, Rhyming Dictionary, Care of the Baby, How to Be an Orator. Step up, gennelmen'n laydeeez 'n take your pick! Any individual book for only fi' cents, a nickel, the twentieth part of a dollar! Ringmaster of and barker for this three-ring circus of literature: Mr. E. Haldeman-Julius of Girard, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A German Classic-- | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

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