Word: soo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Song. Thirteen recorded versions of this pandemic double-talk ballad are available. The refrain-Hut sut rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla, soo-it-is not Swedish, as Composers Leo V. Killion, Jack Owens...
...original screen play is attributed to Mahatma Kane Jeeves, an obvious pseudonym to those who know that Fields writes his own lines. His own character-a small-town tosspot accidentally given the job of cop at the local bank-is labeled Egbert Sousé (pronounced Soo-zay). His small town is called Lompoc-a coincidence which may cause some embarrassment to citizens of Lompoc, Calif. When Mr. Sousé drinks a pony of straight whiskey, he always demands a water chaser, which he uses as a finger bowl; with each drink he requires a fresh chaser, because "I never like...
...churches, many of them flimsy as eggshells, suffered badly. A soo-pound bomb embedded itself deep in the street near St. Paul's Cathedral, which sits unsteadily on foundations of wet sand. The delayed action of such bombs as this and the first one which damaged Buckingham Palace was regulated not by a timing mechanism, which would not survive the bomb's fall, but by the slow action of acid eating through a metal plate. After four days the St. Paul's bomb was finally removed by a "suicide squad" and exploded in a marsh outside...