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Word: cooch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carnival. The salesmen's smoker was an orgy. The smalltown boys had plenty of liquor on their breaths, carnival girls on their laps. A cooch dancer came out and began her undulations. Through her Oriental veil, Bobbie Spencer recognized Helen, the blonde witch whom he loved and had persuaded that very afternoon to quit the show business. Maddened, sickish, he tried to drag her away. Showman Blackie intervened. When Bobbie lunged at him, Blackie drew a gun and fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Highness, the Maharani and Regent of Cooch Behar, a dashing young widow, lay and groaned in agony, last week, at a London hospital. Her spine had been distorted, almost snapped in twain. She had sustained this injury when a horse on which she was riding to hounds slipped, fell, rolled upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sporting Maharani | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...hunting party were Edward of Wales and Albert of York, impotent before Fate. In Cooch Behar, unsympathetic Hindus croaked that their Maharani's accident was in reality a judgment upon her for adopting Occidental habits, even to the extent of eloping with her late hus- band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sporting Maharani | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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