Word: cou
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night, gypsies held watch over St. Sarah's tomb, the faint flicker of smoky yellow wax candles reflected in their jet-black eyes. They also remembered Cou-cou, their last "king," who had settled down in a house with a blue-papered bedroom. Recently, possibly because of his overly soft life, he had passed on to the realm "where a sweeter music is and where the prince of fiddlers plays...
...year of Teapot Dome and Mah Jong and Emile Coué and the dance marathons- of the play Rain and the book Black Oxen-of the new airline to Chicago and the year-old dictator named Mussolini in Italy...
...bootleg tire gangs that flourished in the days when there were still some to bootleg. In contrast, coffee is still too newly rationed for the gangs to have caught up with it, may well be too scarce (and too precious to the consumers who have all the ration cou pons) ever to become a serious problem...
...Peking houseboy mocking his master with the chant : "Mo-yu cou-dzah, Mo-yu wa-dzah, Mo-yu chen, Mo-yu fa-dzah" -he has no pants, no socks, no money, no method...