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...Tout est plus doux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: French Wartime Songs | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...vous tout de vey a vous, cherie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Where Does It Hurt You? | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...tune, like 1937's Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (TIME, Dec. 27, 1937), sounded unmistakably, dumpily Yiddish. Sure enough, after long investigation the song's publishers (Sing Song Music Corp.) finally admitted that A vous tout de vey was only so much French dressing. A Bronxier way of spelling: Avu tut dir vey. Meaning: "Where does it hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Where Does It Hurt You? | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...Union gave the U. S. contribution to the War of Nerves a day to cool off, then rejected his proposal. Said Ham Fish, who had in a big way filled the role of U. S. political tout-tourer of the summer to Europe: "I wash my hands of the whole thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: All This War Talk | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...will find other examples of old English usage: "that barn's as like his fadder as an he'd been spit out of his mouth." . . . The same saying is to be found in France: "C'est son père tout craché;" ". . . y reconnut man portrait tout craché," (Voltaire, Crépinade; see craché, Vol. I, p. 878, Dictionnaire de la Langue Française, edited by E. Littré; Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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