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  • Also, voters in Looey-siana, even Nawth Looey-siana, ended up being ok enough with Bobby to give him comfortable pluralities if not outright majorities in certain parishes that, to be honest, I didn't think had it in them.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • A monster of a shallow, social climber, she arrives from the rough, commercial Midwest to reside in a 'Looey' suite at a New York City Hotel and to look for a husband.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Reviewing the history of Latino animated characters on TV reveals that three of them have been sombrero type bandit (albeit humorous): Speedy Gonzales (1953), Baba Looey (in "Quick Dra McGraw," 1959), and the infamous advertising character Frito Bandito (1967).

    Federico Subervi: How Cartoons Inform Children's Ideas About Race Federico Subervi 2011

  • Reviewing the history of Latino animated characters on TV reveals that three of them have been sombrero type bandit (albeit humorous): Speedy Gonzales (1953), Baba Looey (in "Quick Dra McGraw," 1959), and the infamous advertising character Frito Bandito (1967).

    Federico Subervi: How Cartoons Inform Children's Ideas About Race Federico Subervi 2011

  • Reviewing the history of Latino animated characters on TV reveals that three of them have been sombrero type bandit (albeit humorous): Speedy Gonzales (1953), Baba Looey (in "Quick Dra McGraw," 1959), and the infamous advertising character Frito Bandito (1967).

    Federico Subervi: How Cartoons Inform Children's Ideas About Race Federico Subervi 2011

  • Reviewing the history of Latino animated characters on TV reveals that three of them have been sombrero type bandit (albeit humorous): Speedy Gonzales (1953), Baba Looey (in "Quick Dra McGraw," 1959), and the infamous advertising character Frito Bandito (1967).

    Federico Subervi: How Cartoons Inform Children's Ideas About Race Federico Subervi 2011

  • Reviewing the history of Latino animated characters on TV reveals that three of them have been sombrero type bandit (albeit humorous): Speedy Gonzales (1953), Baba Looey (in "Quick Dra McGraw," 1959), and the infamous advertising character Frito Bandito (1967).

    Federico Subervi: How Cartoons Inform Children's Ideas About Race Federico Subervi 2011

  • In Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel, "The Custom of the Country," this monster of a shallow social climber arrives from the rough commercial Midwest to reside in a Looey suite at a New York City Hotel and to look for a husband.

    Three Stories Of Gossip Not Even Austen Could Resist 2010

  • Mai SIL iz frum Looey ville an mi daddeh waz frum SW KY in Graves Cty.

    Gud ting 1 uv u iz docter, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Kids at the Looey & Dooey got to wear street clothes, which was cool, but they usually wore the same ones three out of five days, which wasn't.

    Excerpt: Mystic River by Dennis Lehane 2001

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