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Word: booped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ferment of Labor activity which, with the President fishing and Congress loafing, continued to make most national news, reached a pipsqueak peak last week in Manhattan when, in effect, Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor went on strike. Actual strikers were most of the 135 employes of Fleischer Studios Inc., producers of Boop, Popeye and other animated cartoons. Shouldering placards displaying the cartoon characters and such legends as "We can't get much spinach on salaries as low as $15," they blocked the sidewalk in front of the Studio's building in Times Square, scuffled with police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes-of-the-Week | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...Betty Boop has a little dog which also stole a show. Let us hope that it will replace the title role altogether, seeing that her little falsetto, her mannerisms, and her dress make your reviewer's stomach join Alyce's in the diaphragm...

Author: By R. N. G., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/27/1935 | See Source »

...reached the whistle blows, the music slurs downward as wheels stop spinning. A worker shakes his head unhappily as he reads a sign: PRODUCTION TODAY, 5,000; COMPLETED, 4,999. When everyone has gone the "V 8" insignia on a Ford hood becomes an imp resembling a male Betty Boop who summons the Ford parts to assemble themselves. The accompaniment gaily plays snatches from Chopin's Polonaise Militaire, Beethoven's Ruins of Athens, Mendelssohn's Spring Song. The connecting rods do an authentic square dance to one of Mr. Ford's favorite oldtime tunes. Wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rhapsody in Steel | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

Lost. A $250,000 suit by Singer Helen Kane; against Paramount Publix Corp., Cartoonist Max Fleischer, Fleischer Studios, Inc.; in Manhattan. Charges: ''Betty Boop" cinema strips imitated the Kane face, gestures, "boop-boop-a-doop" singing (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...have become a ghost. Recently in Hollywood when some children ran to open the door of my car they greeted me as Betty Boop. Betty is just one stroke removed from Mickey Mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Again, Boop | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

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