Word: oo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Street were sternly told to try elsewhere. Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with surrealistic reminiscences about old Lord Droopy Drawers and Lady You-Know-'Oo, or "the time we went to Ireland on roller skates...
...chests, mostly of vast age and hideousness, and almost all associated with the ancient indiscretions of the illustrious that flowed from Rosa's memory like champagne from "cherrybums," as she called the Jeroboams that were consumed by the case. Her walls, lined with signed pictures, were a 'Oo Was 'Oo of her times...
...Oo-too-koo. To small donors, he commends the utility of the Unalakleet Eskimo language, in which the one word oo-too-koo means "small and I wish it were bigger." One Harvardman wrote during the Depression to explain in a flurry of metallic puns his inability to donate: "I am an aluminum of two colleges besides Harvard, and can not pay antimony to all three." McCord's answer was a simple "Iron stand you." To the 35% of Harvard alumni who had never heeded his call, McCord one year hopefully anticipated the day when he could write...
...According to Department of Agriculture Leaflet No. 340 (The Periodical Cicada), the noise goes: "Tsh-ee-EEEE-e-ou" ... or sometimes, "AH-O-oo...
...legs were once banned from the Paris metro-too tantalizing to straphangers-so when unfading Marlene Dietrich, 57, turned up to show her classic calves for real, the Olympia music hall bulged with appreciative Frenchmen. With the old seductiveness, she caressed 18 songs a night, but drew the heartiest oo-la-las when, turned out in top hat, tails-and bare legs-she did a few coltish kicks. A grateful management held her over an extra week, and grateful admirers despoiled acres of rose gardens to pay her floral tribute...