Word: qu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another set of orders in the name of a greater Japan. Once again a roar of motors responded and the old commander's new squadron, a fleet of seven jaunty green motorized pedicabs, went putt-putting down the macadam road on their test flight. They have the name "Qu' avec"-a Japanese notion of the way a Frenchman might say "With whom?" "I call them 'Qu' avec,'" simpered Tanaka, "to indicate that boy & girl might get together pleasantly in pedicab...
...With 50 "Qu' avecs" already built, the general hopes soon to export his cabs all over the Orient. "I will succeed," he admits, "because I am alert. I had to be to become a lieutenant general. After all, Japan spent 500 million yen on my education, counting the cost of the planes I lost in my command and the training of the men killed in them...
...Britain's King George VI, did the galleries, appeared circumspectly at a nightclub, danced until 2:30 a.m. at an embassy ball, and slipped through a garden gate to escape a carload of photographers determined to pursue her on a drive into the country. Frenchmen said of her: "Qu'elle est belle!" Reporters noted with approval that in nine public appearances she had worn nine different costumes. At the airport last week, when it was all over, Margaret murmured politely to her hosts: "I've had such a wonderful time...
...parade halted. Leaders indignantly shouted back to their followers, "Les flics ne veulent pas qu'on passe!" (The cops won't let us pass.) The answer was a sullen rumble...
...shall now have this week's spelling lesson, courtesy of Sunday's New York Times. Question: How do you spell "circus"? Answer: p-s-o-l-q-u-o-i-s-e. Explanation: Pronounce "ps" as you would in psychology, "olo" as you would in colonel, "qu" as you would in bouquet, and "oise" as you would in tortoise. Put them all together, they spell mother. Or possibly cholmondley...