Word: looie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the war. New Yorkers found such an animal fair in the smelly old Bowery warehouse of Louis Ruhe, Inc. (pronounced Looie Rooie), world's largest wild-animal dealer. The fair was at its best in March. Then U.S. zoo keepers, searching for animals for the spring and summer zoogoers, would stalk lions and tigers, aardvarks and aye-ayes, capybaras and caimans, tarsiers and toucans, caged in Ruhe's warehouse...
Naybor (the looie) Cargin and Herbert Coggins with dates located the only dry bench in the Common Saturday night but found it just too crowded for four...