Word: vamp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such antics on the part of the Prince of Wales as you describe in your issue of Nov. 2. No decent young man dresses himself up in girl's clothes and appears in a farce called The Bathroom Door. There are enough scatter-brained girls who call themselves " vamps" without the Prince making a "Royal Vamp" of himself. I visited England last year and want to say that a great many people in London know him for what he is. Too many Americans think he is a sweet, babyfaced, "innocent," "embarrassed" young man ! That is perfect nonsense, and anyone...
...make matters worse, the photograph was obviously "posed" to the satisfaction of "the Royal Vamp," who is rumored to have impenitently "countenanced" its release by one of his suite...
...This," when inspected, appeared superficially to be only a photograph of a svelt and alluring "redheaded vamp." Alas, her shoulders were a thought too broad, her hips a shade too neat! She was none other than Edward of Wales, snapped en costume while appearing in The Bathroom Door, a farce produced aboard the cruiser Repulse just before she docked at Portsmouth (TIME, Oct. 26) and returned the Prince from his South American tour...
Words like "flapper", "vamp", "necker" and what not insult countless ears besides those of Representative Branch of Florida until they come to be completely disregarded and overlooked. Thus, a nourished, they at last die out, but such protests as this suggested bill in Florida will only glorify and strengthen them. There are always people to cry for the right of the citizen to express himself in his own choice...
...today, the world has turned astronomer. All other interests are eclipsed in the face of this singular phenomenon. The shopgiri forgets her gum, the vamp her powder, and the schoolboy his sied. Even the captive student is granted an hour's respite from examinations...