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Word: cooch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brothel, a pawnshop, and such darkly symbolic figures as a callous worldling who spits on common humanity, Storm-Trooperish policemen who cudgel it, street cleaners who cart its bodies off to the city dump. Around an arriving young American prizefighter with a bad heart flow loan sharks, plutocrats, cooch dancers, madams, homosexuals, a Casanova on his uppers, a Camille who herself must buy love, a Lord Byron who escapes to Greece for an ideal, a Don Quixote who offers the escape of illusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...engagement at a Miami nightclub, Egyptian Cooch Dancer Samia Gamal, bride of Texas Playboy (Shepherd) Abdullah King, sniffed the U.S. air, announced that American women "use too much soap. I take a bath twice every week, and the other days I sponge myself with olive oil. It would be better if American girls shined a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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