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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF TASTE | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STAR GAZERS ALL | 1/24/1925 | See Source »

...siren too corpulent to vamp anyone but a Turkish Sultan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Apr. 14, 1924 | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

...young man who kills a rival in a sordid brawl, forgets his past and achieves respectability, only to have the long arm of the law reach out to yank him back to degradation. Nita Naldi as the siren who twice tries to wreck him is too corpulent to vamp anyone but a Turkish sultan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 14, 1924 | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

...turns to the bare minimum of an Algerian dancing girl. She unwittingly betrays her people by falling in love with a French spy, masquerading as an Arab to learn of the regular monthly Tuareg rebellion. The happy ending is easily anticipated, although she stabs herself. In her first semi-vamp role, Miss Talmadge makes good. But Joseph Schildkraut seems to be working under wraps. Atmosphere is generally excellent, being obviously hand-made only in the girl's name-Noorma-Hal, fashioned from the cable address of the Talmadge company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 3, 1924 | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

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