Word: ze
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cabin 205. There, written in a steward's slanting scrawl, was the name: M. Clarence Darrow. Count de Polignac generally speaks English with only a trace of a French accent. Nevertheless the Graphic reported his final gangplank words as: "Those who ordered me, Count de Polignac, to ze jail have trespass on my honaire. . . . "But here in America, when I am humiliated, I can do nozzing." "Maybe zey zink zis is ze joke and zey get zemselves, what you call it-pooblicity. To me, zo, it is ze serious mattair. Zey have exploited my name, zose dry agents...
...most nasal resonnance. The diction throughout is based on the questionable philosophy that France is full of Frenchmen. Little Arlette, the dyer-kiss do-de-o-do (but I loof heem, ah mon Dieu how I loof heem). Jacques the melancholy boulevardier (you ave hask me eef I spik ze English?), and Mimi the cockeyed marmoset, are really but two-dimensional characters. They never really exist. With that amen of thankfulness, let us ask ourselves how, even in the greatness of the economic waste in the book industry, this mosaie of maudlin superfluity was ever published...
...palm, except as a signal to acolytes, is neither rubric nor good taste at a church ceremony. When it came time for the House of Deputies (lower legislative house of the convention) to elect a president, only three ballots were necessary to affirm the election of the Rev. Dr. Ze Barney Thorne Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, rector of Washington's Epiphany. Dr. Phillips is a liberal evangelical, is a compromise president, for he is pleasing to the liberal (quasi-Roman) high church & to the evangelical (Methodistic) low church. When it came time to take up the proposed exclusion...
...geevs me great, great pleasure to make wis ze great American 'enemy' shake hend," laughed Captain Koehl, waving to the medal-bedecked flag-bearer of the Legion, and sighing with relief as the elevator doors slammed...
Julie. "Thees Pierre, 'e iz one dam fine bootlaig, mais nevaire, nevaire will I make ze marriage wiz him" is the type of dialogue that drove many of the audience home at the end of Act II. Some remained to snicker at tense moments. The plot involves a drunken Canuck mother who sells her daughter, Julie, to a bootlegger for two cases of Scotch. There is also the stalwart Yankee youth who saves the girl over the disapproval of his tight little mother, and a bady who did not belong to Julie after...