Word: loos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ching La Yin, a Chow, operator of a laundry and collar pressing establishment... "Voly had, sitilation practically intolilable. Have thiee sons, Ching Lo, Ching Loo, and Ching Loo. Two are in Army, one is Plivate first class, other is not so Plivate, second class. Other...
Surprise Choice. Tall, stern Lord Linlithgow, whose record term (seven and a half years) as Viceroy expires in October, was fishing near Simla in the cool fragrance of the Himalayan hills when Wavell's appointment was announced. Down in the plains, where the hot summer wind, the loo, pushed the mercury toward an unendurable 120°, Indian commentators wrote bitterly that Linlithgow had ruled through a period of turmoil unsurpassed since the mutiny of 1857. They had expected as his successor a hardheaded, reactionary politician, while hoping, faintly, for a statesman with "a fresh approach to the Indian problem...
Soon, if this increase continues, the Americans will be able to send over several hundred planes at once, and the relative losses should decline: with 500 Flying Fortresses, for instance, the U.S. might lose no more or even fewer than a flight of loo, because of the concentrated fire and the lowered odds of the German fighters...
...Chinese last week was doing his quiet bit to enlighten Manhattanites on a subject of great current interest to China-India. C. T. Loo, noted dealer and connoisseur, after a quarter-century of patient collecting, opened a display of "The Sculpture of Greater India." The people who went to contemplate his 69 hard-won pieces in stone and bronze were mainly Mr. Loo's friends-museum curators, students, artists. While the learned visitors took their tea, found a corner for sketching, or discussed the possible influence of Buddha upon Christ, the gods of ancient India-Brahma, Siva, Vishnu, Buddha...
...finds it difficult to understand Indian art-which, in any case, it rarely sees. Life for the Occidental is rarely "a prolonged sacrament"-the description of the life of the Indian given in Mr. Loo's catalogue. Hindu and Buddhist art, arising from intense spiritual concentration, assumed symbolic forms and sectarian twists that only long study can clarify. U.S. amateurs can merely distinguish between Hindu art (oddly vital) and Buddhist art (oddly serene...