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Word: oui (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since money-hugging French Proletarians scarcely think of how much they work in their concentration on how much they earn, the seamen answered with a roar of "Oui!"', rushed back to their ships which sailed with all speed from Havre, while the French Cabinet announced Depression-busting decrees (see col. 3). General grumbling and unrest in French ports last week, with some rioting and shouts of "Hang Laval!" at Cherbourg, showed that the Premier was acting none too soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: We Accuse . . . ! | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

...comity. Smug Japanese were made to feel that their violations of the Nine-Power Treaty can be made "right" if Japan can persuade any one of the other eight signatories to exchange favorable notes with her. In Paris the new Cabinet of Premier Pierre Laval were inclined to answer oui when asked by the French Admiralty whether, in the opinion of the French Foreign Office, the Washington Treaty limiting French naval strength had not been largely invalidated last week by the general instability of world treaties created by His Majesty's Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: One Way to Avoid War | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

...Mais oui, nous en avons plusieurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: School for Landladies | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...Will you do as I ask?" cried Republican Doumergue at last. Fascist de la Roque drew himself up and saluted the little man in civilian grey. "Oui, monsieur le President," he said. "To you the 'Cross of Fire' can only answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Fiery Cross at Crisis | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...their girls come too, and then they go to the dance. All right, I said. So I made a big supper, and when they come already they drank a lot. Then they put whiskey in the wine. My God, yes. I said to Fontan, 'On va etre malade!' 'Oui,' il dit. Then these girls were sick, nice girls, too, all-right girls. They were sick right at the table. Fontan tried to take them by the arm and show them where they could be sick all right in the cabinet, but the fellows said no, they were all right there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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