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Word: toup (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Creole, which was produced at Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré in New Orleans in 1927, by the Professional Players in Philadelphia and the Pasadena Community Playhouse. The speech in the play is made by a little Creole spinster doing job work in Madame Toup's carnival costume shop. Mademoiselle Titine says: "It was a religion my Pappa had for opera, yas. Me, I can show you that box at the opera where I am almost born! It was Les Huguenots and when the chorus sing-'La-Lal-la'-Mommon say to Pappa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1943 | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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