Word: se
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First they went sightseeing in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Washington. Said a señorita: "I never dreamed I would walk into heaven and be greeted by so many angels." Said an Ecuadorian engineer: "The burlesque! They are very good in Washington, but Philadelphia ees the best . . . what you say-plenty hot. ... A keese here is just a keese. Een Ecuador the keese is most wonderful thing. Here the girl, she keese the boy-that ees wrong. Een Ecuador the girl, she get keesed-ah, that ees good...
...movies, a South American asked his date whether she had yet been afflicted with "the constipation" (flu). Another visitor, invited to a freshman party, told his colleagues that he had a date with "the fresh people." Asked in class to name something that could be seen and touched, Señor Luis Samiento replied: "My wife, but only...
...issued an unflustered statement. The resolution was contrary to President Roosevelt's foreign policy, to Pan-Americanism and to the opinion and decision of all Cubans, said he, adding that "the admirable policies of President Roosevelt . . . have profoundly consolidated confidence and union among all the nations of America." Señor Cortina knew, if all Latin Americans did not, that Senator Smathers is a windbag whose opinions influence no other Senator...
...arrival in Guayaquil was announced in the morning paper, with picture. The title was "El Señor Bnelemaas"; the picture that of James Cromwell, who, says Bemelmans, is "the Ecuadorian ideal of the typical North American." Later, in a Quito paper, Cromwell appeared as Russell Davenport...
...Quito a sunburned lieutenant told him: "It is terrible here, Señor. First you must make love to this girl you want until your nose bleeds; second you must make love ... to her mother, her father, the butler, and the parrot, and in the end you must always marry her." The café society set was dull and insolent ("they all but come over to your table to read the labels on your clothes") but some of the transients were good. "Franz Josef's local grandson had some claim to authenticity: his accent was correct, he clicked...