Word: loing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the precise origin of the noun gigolo (zhi-go-lo) is obscure, it probably derives from the verb gigotter "to kick about," the adjective gigotté "strong sinewed'' and the noun gigots "legs," or "shanks...
...Ramona. Lo, the poor half-Indian, pity her. Her loving husband, a full Indian, is maltreated by the whites in California in the days of '49. Her baby dies because the white physicians will have nothing to do with her. White bandits shoot up her village, kill her Indian friends and her husband. She wanders in the wild woods, brokenhearted. Thus, the popular novel of Helen Hunt Jackson as screened by United Artists. Dolores Del Rio, always throbbing, is at her best...
...battle between the two evangelists now promises to assume Herculean proportions. After Mr. Voliva has painfully gathered his group of faithful followers, lo, those very ones are accused, of all people in the world, of being perverted. The indignant apostle, helpless on the far side of an ocean, can only pray while the enemy makes a determined attack on his very stronghold, and of what use are new converts when the old are falling before the Amazon-like assault? It seems as if the master-believer would be forced to return to defend his hard-won following. Once in Zion...
...American child and the bewitched doll, accompanied by a little Rumanian shepherd child, travel through Rumania. Rumania would not hold such charm for American children if the Queen of Rumania didn't live there. It was not easy lo describe myself, but I hope I succeeded...
...spare you the translation of our remarks: they were not in the best lo-the-poor-immigrant manner. But at length I said-"Oh well, God is merciful even to this benighted land. The mantle of our Andreyev has fallen upon Eugene O'Neill; while he lives and writes, U. S. A. may boast of a literature far beyond would-be psychological excursions into sordid Main Streets. I am expecting a new weekly magazine of news; possibly it may be less for 'les cretins' than the majority of the news press...