Word: bara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self fame it might bring them. In major league baseball we play for business; to make money. Those men who play in college play for recrestion, and not as a duty. They do not have to work hard; they play. Men on a major league team work very bara every day or they soon lose out. Consequently when college graduates come into organized baseball, they find it very difficult to get down to the hard strain of every day playing...
Kipling saw a picture, painted by Burne-Jones and shocked the world of women's colleges by writing the "Vanipire". And then Theda Bara played it in the movies and shocked the rest of the world by saying, "Kiss me, my fool" to one of the funniest looking specimens ever decorated with the early editions of Form Fit Sartorial subtleties. But Kipling never reached the heights in that verse which he attained in "The Ladies". I fancy he never reached such heights anywhere else, and I've read all the verse he ever wrote, read it and re-read...
Take Theda Bara, for example, " When she came out on the stage," writes Helen M. Foster in Movie Weekly, "I said to my friend that surely could not be Theda." The friend said nothing, apparently?he knew his place. But it was Theda after all?the rogue! "She asked how many wanted her to keep on playing the Vampire role. [Tremendous applause.] She then asked how many wanted her to play the good girl part. [The same applause again.] "Confusing for Theda," we should say. But Miss Foster has a more definite opinion. " I do hope she keeps...
...Theda Bara, another woman who is about to tell what women never tell...
...Theda Bara: " I am in Los Angeles writing a book. What Women Never Tell, partly biographical, partly philosophical. My husband says I am not going back into the movies...