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Word: fois (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...goes over big. Comic Frank Marlowe does a couple of good wide turns as an overgrown hayseed; Hoofer Walter Long manages to make tap dancing look interesting; Gus Van is delightful as the Irish immigrant, who calls Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy the day he lands, wishes him "a foi,ne year of Catholic action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...frank return to femininity." Said the ads: FROU FROU BECOMES YOU. In every big U.S. city, black (and transparent) nighties revealed the intimate mechanics of window dummies. Everywhere, hundred-dollar handbags were stacked in bargain-counter disarray. Perfume was a preferred item. Despite staggering price tags ($1,000 foi a 72-oz. jug of Worth's Dans la Nuit), it sold like patent medicine. Customers reached for absurdly priced costume jewelry as eagerly as pygmy tribesmen bartering for trade beads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrap it as a Gift | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

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