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Word: doop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweetie (Paramount). Frankly extravagant, Sweetie is a football romance staged at a musical comedy college where the students are well-known film players doing entertainment specialties. William Austin is the sissified professor. Helen Kane carries an air-rifle and sings her "poop-a-doop" songs. Nancy Carroll is the pretty girl who inherits a boys' college and bets her claim to it that her team can beat Oglethorpe. Jack Oakie, Broadway showman, changes the hymnlike school song to a ditty called "Alma Mammy." There is also a red-headed fellow who says that a preposition is something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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