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Word: moola (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moola. They blinded Gus to Flora's shortcomings, but they could hardly conceal her size. "Although a large girl, Flora was scarcely more muscular than a hundred and fifty pounds of jelly. . . . She had the even disposition of a milch cow . . . and [admired] Gus as if he were a bale of clover hay. . . . When Gus spent an evening at home she mooed with happiness." Gus liked the moos, but not as much as the moola. With an elephant borrowed from the city's amusement park, he hoisted himself into the circus business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fool's Paradise Lost | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Melchior's Moola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1946 | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...many men have in bed. He has stayed till closing, seen all the sights, heard all the jargon. His short novel Pal Joey consists of the magnificently illiterate letters of a nightclub crooner and hoofer, an attractive, low and decidedly rubbery heel, describing his greedy world of mice and moola (women and money). Perhaps the most laudable thing about this character is that he might not betray the mice for the moola-but one can't be sure. Joey has now become the combination hero-and-heel of a bang-up George Abbott musi-comedy, a profane hymn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 6, 1941 | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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