Word: eau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...observing some barbarous tribe-only to find that that is precisely what she is observing. She faithfully records its wood-notes wild; "The elative d-dazzling, delicious, devastating, divine; and the deflative b-beastly, bloody, boring, the bottom." A simple "oh" has two compressed syllables that come out like "eau." She coins her own anthropological aphorisms: at the English dinner party, "people come not so much to eat as to be eaten...
...just make more trouble. In Vladivostok exiled young toughs formed a bandit gang that terrorized the city and knifed to death a young Communist leader;deportees to a Ukrainian collective farm last year drank so much booze that they were barred from the liquor stores, turned in desperation to eau de cologne...
...photographed the Club des Sous I'Eau in Paris. My photograph showed its president, Commandant Le Prieur, its vice president, the scientist Jean Painleve, and other members cavorting under water in diving masks, shooting off their underwater guns and wearing water lungs...
...their hair every day, bathed every Saturday and used many other such frivolous means of setting off the beauty of their persons." As late as the 18th century, when residents of Edinburgh threw slops from fifth-floor bedchambers with the cry "Gardy-loo!" (from the French gardez I'eau, or watch out for the water), Europe's sanitary arrangements consisted of ordure without decorum. The first British patent for a water closet was not taken out until 1775, although da Vinci had designed one nearly three centuries earlier...