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Word: sirened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Very Wise Virgin. "It's a wise virgin knows her own boiling point," declares 18-year-old Flapper-Siren Betty. Seeing her ensnare a best friend's fiance, one infers that Betty has known her own boiling point well and often. Her triumph is not for long, however. Along comes a Russian lady-of-the-world whose experience extends over and beyond the boiling point, who therefore lures away the bewildered fiance, leaving Betty to marry a bashful doctor of twoscore years and more. Ultimately the best friend recaptures the twice-pilfered fiance. Joan Bourdelle, as Betty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 13, 1927 | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

Dawn in Detroit; Chanticleer [a siren] announces the dawn; the city stirs; the call to labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fliver 10,000,000 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Countess Salm von Hoogstraten: "Word came in from Long Island that a shipbuilder at Greenport is building me an all-electric yacht, 62 ft. long with a 14-ft. beam, which I will christen Fan Keva. She will have three 175-h.p. electric motors, electric piano, electric winches, galley, siren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 28, 1927 | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Silverton, Col., 200 miles from Denver, over crags and chasms no one had ever before crossed. All of Silverton, for four weeks completely snowbound, floundered over to the town baseball lot to see mail, food, newspapers and diphtheria antitoxin drop from the skies into a snowbank. The factory siren kept up a steady shriek. Oldest inhabitants ants shifted their quids to ejaculate. It was not only the first visitor in a month but their first airplane ever-just skimming the housetops, circling higher, shining in the sun, veering on a wind gust, dipping, climbing, droning fainter, dwindling away into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Visit | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?Anita Loos's siren snooping about for goldfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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