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Word: whan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Hape!! Yi yi -geeve a look de book, momma- look de peecture!! Is a hape, no?? So I say, 'Baby, dollink, wot's dees??' So he saz me, 'A hape!' Look it stends: 'Playe stends for hape Wot he leeves in de trizz; Whan he nidds a gless meelfc He'll a cuccanot squizze!!'" All Milt Gross's humor is like this. There is no satire, no attempt at subtlety, beyond the infinite subtlety of the extraordinary dialect in which his characters cavort. They-Mr. & Mrs. Feitlebaum, Looy, Isidore, Nize Baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dunt Esk Anodder | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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