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Word: heyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chapel Hill, on the comely campus of University of North Carolina, dashing young South American caballeros last week politely lifted their hats to passing coeds and saluted them with the words: "Let's pitch a little woo." The coeds responded: "Hey" (North Carolinian for Hello). All in fun, the South Americans were busy practicing the promotion of hemisphere solidarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hemisphere High Jinks | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...Except such old impertisans as Al Smith, who growled like a political Jimmy Durante: "So the convention drafted the third term candidate! Drafted, hey? Kuh-h-h-loney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: God Willing | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...much a clown on a higher plane; to Orsino, Viola and Olivia, made fools of by love in their own right-Shakespeare has pried good humoredly. But when the smoke of his amazingly complicated plot has cleared, it is nothing but "a whirligig of time." You are left singing "hey, nonny, nonny...

Author: By L. L., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/22/1940 | See Source »

...meant to be funny is Segar's Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye. Thimble Theatre's first cast consisted of gawky Heroine Olive Oyl and her dimwit brother Castor. They straggled along for ten years before Castor Oyl one day in 1929 encountered Popeye on a dock. Cried Castor: "Hey, are you a sailor?" Said Popeye dourly: "Ja think I was a cowboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Successful Sailor | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...British Purchasing Commission's Sir Louis Beale told the delegates about British purchases and plans, a Manhattan importer named Carl Whitman jumped from his chair, shouted "Hey! When are you going to pay what you owe us?" Next to those, the convention's grimmest words were spoken by a vice president of Manhattan's Chase National (biggest U. S.) Bank. Tall, balding Joseph Charles Roven-sky foresaw putting a lot of liberty on the shelf right away. He believed the U. S. would abandon at least temporarily the Hull methods, resort to Hitler's own methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Hitler at the Palace | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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