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Cuffy

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Cuf´fy    (k f`f)
n.1.A name for a negro.


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Moral invertebrates like James Taggart, who oversees the destruction of the Taggart Transcontinental Railway, or the Al Capone-like Cuffy Meigs, the gang-leader just before the final catastrophe, exercise a kind of morbid glamor as Rand demonstrates the drastic consequences of their larceny-dissimulated-as-altruism.
The Saturdays is set in New York City, where Mona, Rush, Miranda (known as Randy), and Oliver Melendy live in a five-story brownstone with their distinguished (and often conveniently absent) father and their devoted housekeeper, fondly known as Cuffy.
``It helps to broaden their horizons,'' said Serina Cuffy, who teaches youths at the county NAACP's Saturday school.
 
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