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When Major Sands, from the poop deck of the trading-ship Centaur, just under way from Antigua to England, sees the 40-gun Black Swan sidling up, he trembles for himself and for his charge. He is escorting back to England lovely Priscilla. daughter and heiress of Antigua's onetime governor, the late Sir John Harradine. The Centaur's captain maneuvers his ship like a fool and the only other passenger, de Bernis, is known to have been a buccaneer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood & Lightning | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...Poop-out-one who is "not so hot." (Cornell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Go Milk a Duck | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...have a picture by a child prodigy. Last year's prodigy was long-legged Joan Manning Sanders, 17. This year's prodigy was 16, Victor Albert Ledger, employed by day as a delivery boy in Covent Garden. He submitted a picture of two drunken 18th Century sailors on the poop deck of a schooner, which was instantly accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: London Season | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...moaning Showgirl Helen ("Boop Boop-a-Doop") Kane announced: "It is really 'Poop Poop-a-Doop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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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