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Word: loreleis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Channing, creator of Lorelei Lee, gold-digging heroine of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," spent a half hour expressing her opinions on musical comedies in general and hers, in particular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crowded Law Coffee Hour Hears Carol Channing on Musical Comedy | 5/2/1952 | See Source »

Whatever her effect on the cast, Miss Channing does nothing to either the songs or scenery except improve them. With wiggling hips and dumb blonde's dialect, she creates a captivating Lorelei Lee in A Little Girl From Arkansas and Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. But only the expectation that Miss Channing will return supports the two-thirds of the show which grinds on without...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 4/23/1952 | See Source »

Swamp Girl (Frankie Laine; Mercury). An unintentionally hilarious song about a Lorelei who lives in a marsh and a fellow who can't help getting his feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Sep. 24, 1951 | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...Lorelei Lee is one tart that never seems to go stale. Her crust is as crisp in a Broadway musical today as it was in 1925, when Anita Loos composed her memoirs of a floozy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Now Author Loos has tried the old recipe again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Recipe | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Neither Sir Ernest nor his heir needs fear that the prime source of the dynasty's power will ever diminish. One of the first great Randlords, old Barney Barnato, put it tersely, many years before Flapper Lorelei Lee: "Women are born every day, and men will always buy diamonds for women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD & DIAMONDS: Passing the Scepter | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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