Word: vamping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson) he has written the least official poetry. For his annual stipend of £72, and £27 in lieu of a butt of Canary wine, he has produced one thin official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited the U. S. in 1924 and refused to commemorate the event in rhyme, a Manhattan tabloid carried what newspapermen call the classic headline of all time: KING'S CANARY WILL NOT CHIRP...
...clues three cigars and a scrap of pink paper, but psychic waves, deadly chemicals, and amateur theatricals find them sufficient. The Secret of Secrets (Clode, $2) is a purely scientific invention, and yet the most improbable people seem to have stolen it?quaint rustics, fake priest, German spy, vamp. The Diamond Murders (Dodd, Mead, $2) reeks with dope and gore for the sake of the Maharanee of Dahlcurrie's necklace; is nevertheless pleasantly credible...
Year in and year out John Fosdick's unbounded domesticity has consisted of smoking cigars over the evening newspaper while his good wife sits by, bored. Come a pair of Mr. Fosdick's onetime sweethearts to vamp him. For a while the sirens disrupt the family, giving Mr. & Mrs. an opportunity to realize how dear to their hearts was that old homely destitution. They make up, promising each other that "everything shall be just the same as it was before." In the end John Fosdick is seen smoking cigars over the evening newspaper while his good wife sits...
Complications are plentiful in the romance when Dolores Casanova, vamp of Spain, comes on the stage, leading Rockwell's valet, Jimmy Walker, a merry tango. L. W. Grossman 1G.B, who wrote the music for last year's show and portrayed Nooky in the "Fool-for Scandal,", furnishes a large share of the comedy as Jimmie Walker. Spanish girls still have a thing or two to learn from C. R. Frazier '27, in the part of Dolores Casanova...
Ushers with tall combs and white mantillas stole back up the aisles as the house lights faded out. The orchestra blared some opening bars, then hushed to a faintly drumming vamp. Into a pool of amber light on the empty stage, stepped a small woman with hair of jet, a stocky little figure in velvet flounces, with a broad, flat face of extraordinary mobility. Her black eyes grew slowly wider and deeper as a spattering storm of applause burst upon her, swelled and rumbled with calls of "Brava! Brava!" which took five minutes to blow over...