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Word: sieu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marcel Tabuteau likes nothing better than to fall reverently to sleep on the table after a Herculean meal and a bottle of wine. Says he, holding up his thumb and forefinger in an expressive circle: "A little garlic? M'sieu, there is no such thing as a little garlic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Little Garlic | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...afternoon of March 27 a neat little Chinese student in blue serge suit, brown tie and rimless octagonal spectacles was seen sprinting for dear life across the campus of Northeastern Oklahoma State Teachers College at Tahlequah. Daniel Shaw (born Hing Sieu) had traveled all the way from Hongkong in 1931 to study in the U. S., had wandered through colleges in Walla Walla, Wash.. San Francisco, Lynn, Mass., Cicero, Ill. and Lexington, Ky., trying to make up his mind whether to be a missionary or a diplomat. Finally he ended up in Tahlequah to study American Indian lore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Indian Lore | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

...sieu le Ministre! S'il vous plâit. What disposition shall I make of the gold which is ready pour les Etats-Unis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Guillotined at Dawn | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...lean, Frank Jay, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, leased his string of Riviera casinos and hotels last week for the pittance rental of 2,000,000 francs ($80,000) per year to a French syndicate in which Mayor Jean Medicin of Nice is prominent. Thus "M'sieu Goolt," who enjoyed poor health last summer, transferred to Frenchmen the thankless job of running these properties on the cheap until kitties grow fat again. Other Gould properties in France, including his paper mill, chocolate factory and the spa Bagnoles de l'Orne, remain under the managership of Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Lean Kitties | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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