Word: puella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend observed, "a little capillary vein of-shall we call it satire? It breaks out when least expected." He was either very dull or very sharp with the ladies, they were never sure which. When gay Hannah Quincy coyly told him she knew some Latin and offered "Puella amat puer," John quickly countered: "Puella what? . . . The object of the verb takes the accusative, in Latin. If you are trying to say the boy loves the girl .. . Or do you mean, possibly, the girl loves...