Word: bareness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of the bare walls and shelves of the old library, the common room boasts baby pink walls, leather chairs and couches, and a liberal sprinkling of original oil paintings. Among these are a Utrillo and three paintings left to the Fogg Museum by the late Allston Burr '89, once an Overseer of the college and donstor of the Varsity Club...
...between the Navy, the Administration and the other services were not irreconcilable, but it would take nothing less than a full-dress investigation to get them working in harmony again. The inquiry, which would probably run for months, could not be carried on without laying military plans and procedures bare, in the open where Russia would be listening carefully. But there was now no other...
...traditionally tardy Mexico City society matrons tied up traffic in front of his combined atelier and home on the Paseo de la Reforma. Inside, they sipped cocktails and critically eyed U.S., French and Mexican mannequins in a display of 60 new models ranging from simple afternoon dresses to bare-top evening gowns at from 1,500 to 5,000 pesos each...
...weekly's authoritative sport news and lurid stories of "horrid murders, outrageous robberies . . . vulgar seductions," under such titillating or shocking headlines as SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY or ROAST MAN (on a hotel fire). Promotion-wise Publisher Fox sponsored John L. Sullivan's bare-knuckled heavyweight bouts of the '80s, also gave championship belts and medals to rat catchers, oyster openers, bartenders and barbers...
Bobbed Hair & Bare Facts. But Prohibition (1920) dried up the Police Gazette's barroom circulation, and in 1922 it lost most of its barbershop trade when women invaded man's next-to-last retreat from womankind to have their hair bobbed. In 1932, ten years after Fox's death, the Police Gazette folded. Revived by Mrs. Merle Williams Hersey, a Methodist minister's daughter, as a magazine frankly and exclusively devoted to sex. the Gazette was sold in 1935 to Publisher Roswell. When the Post Office suspended his mailing privileges in 1942 for one year...