Word: vous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge police. For they have endured, even unto the breaking point, the flaunting of the hirsute adornment of bare masculine legs by Harvard men while sipping tea in the refined atmosphere of an elite Harvard Square tea shoppe. According to them the atmosphere of their favorite afternoon rendez-vous is destroyed by half-dressed athletes and, with appropriate modesty and blushes, they insist that hairy nether limbs be confined to the gymnasium or, in this case, to the squash court...
...Impossible, Monsieur" has been the sorrowful response of countless French tobacconists when stranded U. S. men have managed to gasp out: "Avez-vous Chesterfields?" or "Donnez-moi des Luckies...
...speak French? Parlez vous Francais? No, don't clip the accompanying coupon, don't even bother to take another French course. Go, instead, to the Opera House and see the Guitrys. Then, if not before, you will realize that though it may be imperative to study Russian, Sanskrit, or Middle High German in order to make your way in the world, all an audience at such French plays needs is a program and two good eyes...
...Berteaux, wounding M. Monis, who later resigned the Premiership. "Mes amis," asked Premier Poincaré last week, "do you know what has happened to Antoine Monis?" Blank faces greeted the question. M. Monis was probably dead, thought the Deputies. Today even the French Who's Who (Qui Etes-Vous?) omits his name. "Messieurs les Députés," cried M. Poincaré, "Antoine Monis is not dead! To the shame of our country, La France whom he served as Deputy and Senator for 35 years, I tell you now that M. Monis is alive, but destitute. . . ." The Premier...
...Palos went down river to Shanghai early last spring for overhaul and since then has never gotten further up river than Ichang, although she has been badly needed on the upper stretch, and has made several attempts. Chungking residents have a popular ditty to the tune of "Parlez-vous," the two essential lines of which...