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Word: showgirl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admirers like to watch her small, lively figure, her wise, short-cropped little head, and listen to her pleasantly soft voice. They were sorry to see her show fail, for Mary Hay once created a type: the intelligent showgirl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...moaning Showgirl Helen ("Boop Boop-a-Doop") Kane announced: "It is really 'Poop Poop-a-Doop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...almost all it needs. The "plot" is merely, a half-dozen amorous episodes. unconnected except by the busy hero. Best performance is that of Patricia Collinge, subtle and wistful as a lady who might have loved Anatol but never dared. Blonde Miriam Hopkins is raucously amusing as a guzzling showgirl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 26, 1931 | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

Married. James Vail Converse, Manhattan banker; and Ruth Morgan, showgirl (Smiles), his fourth wife (Mrs. Elizabeth Walter Converse, his third, was killed in an automobile accident at Falls Church, Va., last month); at Fairmont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 8, 1930 | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...widespread, battled search which followed chased vain clues throughout New England, into Canada, as far south as Orlando, Fla. Once Judge Crater was thought to have joined his old law associate, U. S. Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner, in Europe. Several Broadway girls professed acquaintance with him. Showgirl June Manners, said to be his friend, also was reported missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Lost Judge | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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