Word: goil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that this title was "too obtuse," asked him to try again. Huxley cheerfully suggested another he has used successfully: Mortal Coils. After a good deal of considering, U-I rejected that one on the grounds that people might mistake it for Brooklynese for "curls" or "girls" (doubtless a goil named Moitle...
...Pansy Nussbaum (Minerva Pious) is a triumph of comic virtuosity. To avoid offense to Pansy's prototype (the big-city Yiddish tenement dweller), Allen confines himself to kidding Yiddish-English. He seems endlessly aware of new and whimsical wrinkles in the dialect. "When I am a young goil, footloose and fancy," Pansy once related, "I am woiking, a waitress, in Doberman's delicatessen. Is coming every day for lunch a liverwurst salesman. He is a goodtime Irving, a fancy dandy, also floiting a bissel. The liverwurst salesman is to the other waitress, Supreme Feitelbaum, engaged. With ogling, also...