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Word: sho (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporter dropped around to her night club for a chat with Bricktop (Ada Smith Du Congé), famed as a cabaret hostess among Paris' Left Bank literary set in the '20s. Asked if she remembered F. Scott Fitzgerald, the throaty West Virginia-born Negro songstress said: "Sho-nuf darling, I remember all those darlings. There was Scott, and his wife Zelda, she was nice. There was Hemingway, too, already famous. And Louis Bromfield and John Steinbeck. Steinbeck, he's my darling of all darlings, except of course Cole Porter. He's my favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: On the Job | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

When one well-to-do Ruandan greets another, he places his hands lightly on his friend's elbows and says: "/ sho, sho, sho, gir inka" (I hope your cows are doing well). The friend replies: "Eeh, eeh" (I hope yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUANDA-URUNDI: Two Cows in Every Pasture | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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