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Word: bara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CAIN help it," the wily oriental said, trying to get the GALLOWAY. "Look at the KASEMAN. He tried to BLAIK her back and if we don't DETAR him now I GUESS he'll only come BECK again. "He can't HYDE for long, because once we BARA few facts I GUESS everyone will REED about LOEHLEIN we tried to follow. We're got to FISCL bit for information but we KENARY deny it was a close SHAFER her. If he will GALIFFA alone for a while, without being PROSACK I think we HASS a chance to come out.... Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Flung, Thrice Down, Sees Mule Mauled in Embroglio | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

...Theda Bara was a friendly Cincinnati girl named Theodosia Goodman, who became cinema's first femme fatale. Her catch line: "It is very hot in Africa" became a cliche almost as famous in its day as Mae West's "Come up and see me sometime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema Album | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...snake her way through a radiobroadcast love scene, Theda Bara, 52, siren of the early silents, emerged from 20-odd years of retirement. Her victim was goggle-eyed Groucho Marx. The studio audience found the famed vamp about 30 Ib. heavier than in her salad days, but still trim in the legs, hypnotic in the eyes. They also found her afflicted with stage fright. The ex-siren told reporters she did the stunt as a favor to friends, had no idea of trying a comeback, then returned to the curio-cluttered mansion where she has long been one of Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 17, 1943 | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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