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Word: boop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual Met stage show, called "Spring carnival" has nothing to do with either Spring or carnivals, but is, however, a delectable interlude between Arthur Martel at the organ and Betty Boop on the screen...

Author: By E. G., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

Less famed than "Mickey Mouse" is the animated cartoon "Betty Boop." Claiming that the latter is a too palpable imitation of her own lisping seductive mannerisms, Singer Helen ("Boop-Boopa~ Doop") Kane filed suit against the Max Fleischer Studios and Paramount-Publix Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 16, 1932 | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...moaning Showgirl Helen ("Boop Boop-a-Doop") Kane announced: "It is really 'Poop Poop-a-Doop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Chaplin is the last of the old guard to rely on native dramatic ability to gain his effects. Acting, is his art, the art of pantomime, and he does not want applause that is bought by gazing at a cardboard balcony and exercising a wheezy tenor, or archly boop-boop-a-doopering. The master comedian is clearly of the opinion that motion pictures, like peacocks, are fine when they silently unfold their tails, but when they attempt to speak it's a very different matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLEVER MUTE | 2/6/1931 | See Source »

...plot consists of a burning and temporarily thwarted romance between Rogers and the daughter of a socially ambitious mother. Helen ("Boop-boop-a-doop") Kane is in it and there are some handsome yacht scenes. Most interesting shot-Buddy Rogers lighting a cigaret before the camera for the first time in his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 27, 1930 | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

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