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Word: poo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delta Phi en masse. His complaint: Sigma Nus, Chi Psis and Alpha Delts had taken to whiling away evenings by shouting obscene names at one another. Worse, a fraternity man was caught in the act of painting on the sidewalk in front of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority house: "Poo on A E Phoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Greeks' Week | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Five scenes from "Poo Late to Langh a new play by Vinton Freedley, Jr. '40 which the Harvard Dramatic Club is presenting in Sanders Theatre tomorrow Friday, and Saturday evenings, will be broadcast this evening at 10:15 o'clock over WH2. The dress rehearsal was held last night and marked the first time at which the entire cast of 115 was assembled together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club on Air | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

Three Little Fishies has verses which can be sung either in English (Down in the meadow in a little bitty pool) or in "fish talk" (Down in de meddy in a ITTY BITTY POO). The chorus can be sung only one way: Boop boop dittem dattem whattem Chu! The song, likely to cause reverse peristalsis in fastidious stomachs, is all about some "itty fitties" who "fam and dey fam" until they "taw a TARK!" (shark). Den dey fam back to deir poo. The publishers, wary of overplugging Three Little Fishies, withheld it from all but a few big orchestral names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Itty Bitty Fitties | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...owns the English rights. Instead, he went abroad to collaborate with Producer Toye, who got the D'Oyly Carte's wholehearted cooperation. The Mikado cost about $1,000,000. Newcomers to Gilbert & Sullivan in its cast are pretty little Jean Colin (Yum-Yum) and Kenny Baker (Nanki-Poo), U. S. radio singer imported for the part. Of Baker the unmollified London Times remarked: "He seems to have learnt English in some place nearer to Japan than London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Hutchinson. In Sorrel and Son Warwick Deeping had the formula just about right, but last week his latest novel showed that even specialists in sad-gladness cannot always hit the proper ratio, that too many sobs spoil the ink. Only a nursery word like ooky-gooky or perhaps icky-poo could justly describe Blind Man's Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sad-Glad Man | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

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