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Word: kiki (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pres- (1928) were Broadway successes which paved his way to the role of a bemused cinema director in Once In a Lifetime. The part of Officer Meshbesher in Face the Music followed. As amusing off stage as on, Hugh O'Connell has a little dog whom he named "Kiki" before he investigated his sex and which, to avoid further confusion, he still refers to as she. He has likewise formed a close attachment for Mazie (also male), soothes the huge animal when they are about to appear on the stage, pats it and talks to it. Hugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

While playing backgammon in the garden of her villa at Juan-les-Pins, France, Maxine Elliott, oldtime actress-beauty, was nipped on the ankle by her pet monkey, Kiki. Furious, Queen Elliott had Jester Kiki's teeth pulled out. Next day Queen Elliott, appeased, took gory-gummed Kiki for a walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 23, 1934 | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...years rolled on Mrs. Diamond, a phlegmatic woman with a stupid loose mouth, grew fat. Her husband got to going around with chorus girls, one in particular called Marion Strasmick whose program name was Kiki Roberts. It generally turned out that whereas Diamond was shot in bed with Miss Roberts, it was Mrs. Diamond who nursed him through his convalescence. Mrs. Diamond was not only immensely good-natured. She was a great joker. In their summer home near Acra she rigged up an electric chair. Her husband was against the idea. In December 1931 Diamond was acquitted of the charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: In New York | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

Separated, Actress Lenore Ulric (Kiki, Lulu Belle); and Actor Sidney Blackmer. Agreed: They will not "molest" each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...knocked a homerun into the temporary bleachers beyond the right field fence, scoring three runs. In the third, Gehrig had hit his second homerun of the series for the Yankees' fourth run. Meanwhile the Cubs had caught up, with a run in the first, two in the third when Kiki Cuyler drove a homerun into the right field bleachers, another in the fourth when Jurges scored on Lazzeri's fumble. Now, with the score tied. Babe Ruth, whom

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series, Oct. 10, 1932 | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

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