Word: ou
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mystic Meditations. He describes the praying mantis, "or, as they say in Provence, lou Prégo Diéou, the Pray-to-God," with keen observation and lively imagination. "Her long pale green wings, like spreading veils, her head raised heavenwards, her folded arms, crossed upon her breast, are in fact a sort of travesty of a nun in ecstasy." The travesty is complete when the mantis makes her kill: "With the sharpness of a spring, the toothed forearm folds back on the toothed upper arm; and the insect is caught between the blades of the double saw . . . Thereupon...
Honest Joe Lockman was distressed when he discovered that his destination, Utopia, wasn't marked on his Socony Automobile Guide. But Joe enjoyed a good gag, and when he checked up on the mysterious region he was tickled to find that it derived from the Greek ou (not) and topos (a place...
...never really understood why there are always such long lines of people in front of the newspaper kiosks. Copies of Pravda and Izvestia are posled every-where for anyone to read. Observation ou the train, however, shows that newspapers provide not only the intellectual nourishment for the people, but wrapping, toilet and cigaret paper as well...
...pandeiro ou sem pandeiro...
...dinheiro ou sem dinheiro...