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Word: musa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Under THE PRESS (TIME, Dec. 13) the article on Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker caused us to smile again-and to chuckle too, for a second time. . . Your news item is three years late, as we know it. ... TIME is usually ahead of that record-so we'll not deliver unto you-such as you deliver, or send to your staff, one of your "thoroughgoing rebukes. . . ." Here is the copy of one of the Musa-Shiya advertisements referred to above: This very nice advertisement Onnounce Out of Musa Shiya the Shirtmaker (Also Many Dry Good Selling) Foulard This croth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...lately marveled, puzzled, then chuckled over an advertisement in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (evening: circulation, 16,000). On other pages were the conventional displays prescribed by U. S. copy-artists - tobacco broadsides, department store revelations, bank announcements. But up in the corner of one page was the advertisement of Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker, who was either the shrewdest of merchants or blessed with the good offices of the most quick-witted of advertising advisers. Beside a delicate spider-scrabble of Japanese characters stood Musa-Shiya himself, fretted forth in blackest ink with his bare toes tweaking at each other through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pidgin Ad | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...Well, if you saw this neckties you came right away purchase me. Sappose no more necktie how did you had a stylish this time I say so. All right. "How Finding "Until finding Musa-Shiya Shap please King Street go for River. Before arrived then Fish Market came. Do not paused. Advance away for River but not until River. Then you saw nice sign say so Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker 179. That was the places my shop. Thanks you entered insides purchase me this time." Cosmopolites had seen the same sort of thing done by fawning Frenchmen in foreign lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pidgin Ad | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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