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Word: carmens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reference Carmen Miranda and El Ratón Miguel in TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...unfortunate and long-suffering Mickey in Brazil is known (believe it or not) by the polysyllabic and extraordinarily clumsy name of Camondongo Mickey. Try it on Carmen, and see if she does not react...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Cannot Reader Owen think of anything better to talk to Carmen Miranda about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...same token, most effective South American missionary in the U. S. last week was a brown-skinned bead-burdened bombshell named Carmen Miranda, who last week continued to pack them in on Broadway with her hot Portuguese singing, the international language of rolling hips and eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Bombers of Good Will | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...show has oomph: a limbsome, lightly-robed chorus, and Carmen Miranda, a Brazilian singer whom Lee Shubert spotted in a Rio night club and brought to Broadway. Enveloped in beads, swaying and wriggling, chattering macawlike Portuguese songs, skewering the audience with a merry, mischievous eye, the Miranda performs only once, but she stops the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Shows in Manhattan | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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