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Word: heem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theme that we have ever read. There is no depth, no irony, only a flat-chested humor of the most nasal resonnance. The diction throughout is based on the questionable philosophy that France is full of Frenchmen. Little Arlette, the dyer-kiss do-de-o-do (but I loof heem, ah mon Dieu how I loof heem). Jacques the melancholy boulevardier (you ave hask me eef I spik ze English?), and Mimi the cockeyed marmoset, are really but two-dimensional characters. They never really exist. With that amen of thankfulness, let us ask ourselves how, even in the greatness...

Author: By L. K., | Title: BOOKENDS | 5/22/1929 | See Source »

...deer. "Sapristi!" muttered Mr. Lebouf. "She sure ees one fine head of horns. By gar, I feex him, queeck!" Forgetting his gun he fumbled in his pocket for his shipping license, whipped it out, tied it to a horn. "Sac' bleu, no man can come an' take heem now," whispered Mr. Lebouf. He proudly examined the body to see where' his bullet had struck. Tickled back to consciousness by Mr. Lebouf's fingers, the buck leaped up, off, away.* "Norn de nom! Crees' de Kilvert!" commented Mr. Lebouf, discovering that his rifle was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...should I know who keela da beeg pumpo? ... If they not keel heem, I keel him some day myself. . . . Since Tony die my keeds have eat no chicken, no sir. . . . Tonight de bambini and me, we eat chicken till we bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Tony | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...make from heem a corn-biff sanawich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION,FICTION: Melba | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

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