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Dumb Dora
reign it was used as an engine of state, not of law, more than once. But when in the reign of Charles I, upon the assassination of the 1st Duke of Buckingham by John Felton, it was proposed to put the assassin to the rack, in order to discover his accomplices, the judges declared unanimously that no such proceeding was allowable by the laws of England.
Dumb Dora (Am sl) – «Дура Дора», глупая девушка, дура Dumb Dora is considered to be 1920s American slang for a completely idiotic woman. The phrase was made popular from the vaudeville acts of George Burns and Gracie Allen (who played the actual role of Dumb Dora), eventually becoming a name of a classic comic strip. The comic strip was discontinued in 1935 despite being given a new lease of life in the 1970s on a CBS game show called Match Game, extending the routine to audience participation. Members who were watching in the studio would shout the phrase How dumb is she? in total unison. Flappers1 during the 1920s shared many of the same common characteristics of a dumb Dora.
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Flapper in the 1920s was a term applied to a “new breed” of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms. Flappers took their name from a tendency of young women in the late 1910s and early 1920s to leave their galoshes unfastened (“flapping” as they walked).
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