Word: doo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's cockney chanticleers had not yet started to crow in chorus. But one martial ditty (by Songwriters Max & Harry Nesbitt, Alec Daimler & Syd Green) hit the characteristic British cock-a-doodle-doo...
...Raper was careful to point out that thi functioning of sex hormones in Achlya ambisexualis does not imply anything similar in other plants.* Even so hormonic sex can no longer be regarded as the exclusive cock-a-doodle-doo of the animal kingdom...
...April 22, 1938 we shall found the city of Pomezia, which will be dedicated Oct. 29, 1939. Only then will our work be completed and new victories will be added to those which the Italians have attained." "Doo-chay! Doo-chay!" chanted the crowd as the imperial mask cracked and Benito Mussolini beamed with pleasure. Leaping to the driver's seat of the tractor, he threw in the clutch, sent the machine careening off in a 100-ft. circle to mark not the boundaries of Aprilia, but the foundation of Aprilia's town hall. Above the clatter...
Porgy and Bess, so named to prevent prospective customers from regarding it as a revival of the play, begins with droning "Do-doo-da's" interspersed with "wawa, wa-wa." Catfish Row will be on view, with its dilapidated tenement fronts, its old street lamps, its "Gawd-fearin women" and its "Gawd-damnin' men.'' As in the play, the crippled beggar Porgy drives his ribby goat, hunched in a cart made of packing box labeled "Wild Rose Soap, Pure & Fragrant." The whoring Bess again finds shelter and love with Porgy after the bullying Crown commits his drunken murder...
...Very rapidly: "Thirty-two dollars bid; 32 dollars bid: 32, doo, doo, doo, diddy, doo dollars bid. . . . Thirty-eight dollars bid; thirty-eight dollars bid; 38, nate, nate, nate dollars bid. . . . All done-sole...