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...nighties, La Vie Parisienne, grandpa's amorous exertions that require medical aid, grandson's amorous speculations that require parental talks. Lest any of this seem unduly coarse, the characters are made wacky or lovable as well as lecherous, and the story is sprayed with period allusions and pidgin French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...door of the editor's office at the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury (circ. 3,000) one day last week, a huge cartoon was tacked. It showed a portly, bespectacled foreigner carrying a suitcase toward a steamship. The pidgin-English caption: "All finish!" The Chinese caption:"Scram, Gould...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All Finish! | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Island Prayer. Among the many dialects of the islands, pastors and teachers mainly use pidgin English to preach the Gospel. Even Western Christians may find their own familiar words and phrases spring to new life in pidgin's sharp-cut images. Pastor Salau demonstrated with the Lord's Prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pidgin Belong You | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...Pidgin belong you he come down along ground all same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pidgin Belong You | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...Pidgin belong you, Big Fella Strong belong You, Light belong You altogether day. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pidgin Belong You | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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