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  2. Dumb Dora - Wikipedia

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    Flappers of the 1920s were also sometimes likened to dumb Doras. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The epithet "Dumb Dora" became identified with the vaudeville act of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen , [ 5 ] as did a similar slang expression for a female who was not very bright, but in a charming way: "dizzy dame."

  3. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.

  4. Moon Mullins - Wikipedia

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    Moon Mullins: With his big eyes, plaid pants, perpetual cigar and yellow derby hat, Moon is an amiable roughneck. He haunts saloons, racetracks and pool halls, mangles the English language with Jazz Age slang, and gets into endless scrapes looking for an easy buck or a hot dame. Moon himself is a low-rent but likeable sort of riff-raff ...

  5. Old-School Slang Words That Really Deserve a Comeback

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  6. Betty Boop - Wikipedia

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    Betty Boop was unique among female cartoon characters because she represented a sexual woman. Other female cartoon characters of the same period, such as Minnie Mouse, displayed their underwear or bloomers regularly, in the style of childish or comical characters, not a fully defined woman's form. Many other female cartoons were merely clones ...

  7. List of newspaper comic strips - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of comic strips.Dates after names indicate the time frames when the strips appeared. There is usually a fair degree of accuracy about a start date, but because of rights being transferred or the very gradual loss of appeal of a particular strip, the termination date is sometimes uncertain.

  8. From ‘Basic’ to ‘Boujee,’ Here Are 29 Gen Z Slang Terms To ...

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    Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...

  9. List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms - Wikipedia

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    an art gallery, audience, or a pool of celebrities on a program. English ギャル: gyaru: gal a young woman who belongs to the gyaru subculture English ハイカラ: haikara: high colla(r) (1920s slang) a person who was devoted to Western fashions, trends and values. E.g., manga/anime Haikara-san ga Tōru ("Here Comes Miss High-Collar"). English