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Word: frien (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...dinner," or I can say "I ate roast pork." In both cases I would be correct. The President could get "scattered cheers," or he could get applause. Both are correct. But "scattered cheers" shows your bias in the matter. In another place, you use the words "My frien-n-nds," as though to deride the President's speech, when "My friends," would do just as well, and carry no sense of a jeer. You will say no such effect is intended, but I am the judge of the effect it produces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1935 | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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