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Word: vamps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rounder-faced Pola Negri (Polish-born Appollonia Chalupec), 43, siren of the silent movies, was welcomed back to Hollywood for a comedy role in Hi Diddle Diddle. Said the twice-divorced Valentino-age vamp, who left the U.S. in 1932 to make German and French films: "All I want now is to marry, have children, and stage another great success in pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 10, 1943 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

Miss Irene Ballot, Radcliffe '44, who played the feminine lead in Parts and New York, directs the play, Stepping tuto Miss Ballot's shoes as the pleasant vamp who has all the men in love with her, is Miss Diapa Mowrer, Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Clubs Present Plays for War Relief | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...Eshmont, the former Fordham flash, was the individual star of the game and Harvard's nemesis. It was his two passes which set up the game's first touchdown, and it was his 28 yard vamp scarcely four minutes later that scored the second tally...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: Crimson Belies Slow-Starting Reputation Against Air Cadets | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...Vamp Till Ready. Rita made her professional debut at 14-in a stage prologue to Back Street, an Irene Dunne-John Boles special, at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles. She danced a Spanish number with her Aunt Elisa's son. Eduardo watched them from out front. "I said to myself, 'Hey, she don't look like no baby any more.' Then I decided it was time to . . . start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: California Carmen | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...also happy to announce that he will not enter Harvard, as was threatened by several publicity agents. But Andy has several amusing experiences during his apprenticeship as office-boy, most notable of which is a scene in which he barely escapes the clutches of a very seductive vamp. Our little Rover Boy arrives undefiled in his native town of Carvel, however, and we look forward with cager anticipation to his collegiate adventures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/10/1941 | See Source »

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