B/W 1920s Boy Scouts helping woman cross street / Oakland, California / newsreel 00:01 B/W 1920s Boy Scout talking to flappers trying to cross street / Oakland, California / newsreel 00:38 Lieut. Governor of Ontario reviews huge Boy and Girl Scout parade in Hamilton, Canada 00:29 Bonfir...
Betty’s signature phrase, “Boop-Oop-a-Doop,” has no meaning out of context. It was inspired by “scat,” a style of jazz singing that was popular during the 1920s and ‘30s. Improvisational scat singers strung together groups of words and alliterative sounds that were intentionally nonse...