Word: gai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hook & Shatter. In Ku-ring-gai, Australia, the municipal council asked for a new fire engine after learning that the old one was so beat up it sometimes had to go to fires backwards...
...columnist "boss" by hurling himself head-downwards on the keys (though he could never manage capital letters). Gamest and gamiest of cats is the mehitabel that archy reported on, who insists that she was once Cleopatra and though bedraggled and back-alleyish now, is always a lady and toujours gai. The two friends are an easy pair to feel tender toward, but much less easy to endow with stage life...
...type each letter by diving headfirst from the frame of the machine to the keys (his works were all in lower case because he was unable to land simultaneously on the shift key). His bruised outpourings are mostly about mehitabel, the life-battered but life-loving cat ("toujours gai, toujours gai") who is pretty sure she is a reincarnation of Cleopatra, the hottest cat on the Nile. The libretto is somewhat bowdlerized (gone is mehitabel's running refrain of "wottheheli wotthehell"), but the original's splendid gutter lyricism is still there: wind come out of the north...
...semi-pro groups. University workshops in particular have eagerly seized on such short works as Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Tele phone and Kurt Weill's Down in the Valley. In that company archy and mehitabel should easily hold its own: it is consistently imaginative and toujours gai...
...Brothers in Islam," Liaquat began-and at that moment there was a sharp report, then another. Liaquat fell to the ground, crying: "Goli lag gai!" (The bullet...