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Word: servente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...could not get into any besness . . . you may well think how I felt." Like most of his fellows he began by selling his paper bonus to a speculator for a pittance. Then he pocketed his pride and begged. "I went into Nombers of there shops and would say, your servent gentlefolks, I wish you much Joy with the nuse of peace. . . . Some of them would pity us and would give us some thing, some half a Dollar, some a quarter, some less, some nothing but frowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back from the Wars | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

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