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Word: vamped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bowler, who drinks only water and dry ginger ale. Shouted he: "All things that are sweet and reasonable and Christian are being more and more jeered at and flouted. . . . We know that art and literature have been befouled. ... In literature every man is a cad and every woman a vamp. . . . We have the devotees of St. Vitus' dance called Jazz . . . volplaning down the descending scale. You hear crooners breaking their hearts every night-if anybody broke their necks I should not be sorry. . . . London is the playground of the idle rich. ... All this technique of sapping and mining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Kindle-Joys | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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