Word: thees
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...Thee (lyrics by Alfred Hayes, music by Alex North, Al Moss, others; produced by Nat Lichtman) is a straining little revue in which there is so much stale beer, amateurishly brewed, that when a fair grade of theatrical champagne arrives it seems like Veuve Cliquot. Really sparkling is the ballroom dancing of Cappello & Beatrice...
...part of the maine; if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, . . . any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee...
...trying to use the old-fashioned form of address found in the King James Bible and surviving to some extent in poetry and prayer, the proper form is "How Art Thou?" But if it is the Quaker usage you are striving after, the form is "How Is Thee?", though I do not know whether the Quakers actually use this phrase...
...Thee, Dean Lloyd, is right...
TIME'S English, though often highly informal, is usually pretty good. I must confess, however, that the headline "Neighbor, How Art Thee?" on p. 12 of the current issue [TIME, July 1] almost paralyzes...