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Word: boule (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death in the rapids below, then takes refuge with the Joneses until Sister Mary Josephine fetches her back. Old Googli, the cannibal, fashions a pottery jar from the skull of lascivious Brother Francois who had made an insane attack on the sacred virgin of the medicine man. At Madame Boul-boul's tavern, "Admiral" Delabouche and his crony play dominoes. Flore arrives and the town takes pride in its first courtesan who becomes the Administrator's mistress. The fragments fit into each other to form a crazy-quilt pattern in black and white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & White | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

...Notre Dame by Baron and Baroness Tyrrell. The suave gentlemen and sparkling ladies of the Corps Diplomatique, the dowdy but invincible aristocrats of the Faubourg St. Germain, the most presentable of the Nouveau Riches, a sprinkling of tail-coated French statesmen, a dash of the long-haired Boul' Mich (for the Baroness Tyrrell gives literary suppers), these along with the most eminent Roman Catholics of the English and U. S. colonies jammed vast Notre Dame de Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Miss Tyrrell & Mary Queen of Scots | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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