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Word: zey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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, to put zemselves on ze front page. ... I zink it is all-what you Americans call it? -ze bunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Polignac With Pistol | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...small committee of welcome. The welcome was satisfactory but "la mode" was not. The latest importations had stimulated American industry but M. Poiret did not like them. He strongly objected to the popular French perfume and the most costly Parisien hats. "American women have not ze sense of beauty: Zey do not even like monkey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAUL-PARROTS | 11/8/1922 | See Source »

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