Word: booped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time is the 1930s rather than the '20s, and all the pretty young flappers have become sophisticated, cheating wives. The songs and routines are primarily parodies-of Cole and Noel, Fred and Ginger-and occasionally they are bang-on. But too often the emeritus flappers' old boop-boop-a-doop has gone poop; Wilson would do well to retire them before they are ready for The Old Man Friend...
...Boston, the All-American city, has come up with another: Park Street Music, complete with Hammond organ and brass that goes "wah-wah" and "boop-boop." It slurps out of newly-installed speakers on both levels of the Park Street MTA station, and one cannot escape it. It's bad enough that the subway looks dirty, smells foul, and feels clammy. Must it sound rotten...
...Hotel Roosevelt Grill, and he was talking to 27-year-old Guy Lombardo the night the Royal Canadians opened there. A Chicago critic had called Lombardo's airs "the sweetest music this side of heaven," but still it made Ernst nervous. Lombardo was leaving out the boop-poop-a and just giving the dew. But Lombardo ignored him and kept fogging it into the room-for 33 years-to become one of the most popular and durable performers in U.S. show business. He has sold more than 100 million records, and 6,000,000 people have danced...
...record will feature such 'Poon favorites as "My fall-out filly with the atomic kiss," "The Harvard Coop, boop-boop, boop-boop," and "I'm losing Irv to the Ready Reserve...
...news from Paris last week, as French high-fashion designers called the coming season's styles, was shape. Last winter's flapper rage, the short, unfitted boop-a-doop look, had been inaugurated by Dior's A-shape; this year the alphabet has yielded a softer, swirlier letter as a theme-S. At the end of a week studded with the usual fashion-show crises (Red Cross ambulances stood by for crush victims, models fainted as Zippers caught, Designer Michel Goma was rushed to the hospital with appendicitis), the trend was clear: this year's styles...