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From A. F. H. W. offices in Philadelphia to the trade press also went free contributions of cartoons, jingles. Samples: 1) A studious-looking, bespectacled girl wearing a black brassiére, polka dot panties, ill-fitting stockings. The jingle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Limbs | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Chief drawing-card at a charity fête in Teddington, outside London, one day last week was a well-publicized ride by a well-clothed modern Lady Godiva. Hundreds of amused spectators lined the sidewalks as 13-year-old Mirabelle Muller, in flesh-colored trunks, brassière and long flaxen wig, mounted an old grey mare and ambled through the streets. No Peeping Tom peeked but a Prissy Peter caused lady and mare trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Prissy Peter | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...less. The decks were cleared for Dancer Nicki Leoni, who appeared in a disappointingly simple evening gown of native design. As the music grew faster and the dance grew hotter, she stripped off her dress bit by bit, finally emerged in a skirt and brassière of tobacco leaves-about enough to make six cigars (see cut). Later Governor Sholtz of Florida, Mayor Chancey of Tampa and many another bigwig attended a banquet in honor of a few feeble old cigarmakers who still remembered Señor Don Gavino Gutierrez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cigar Celebration | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...seclude themselves in the Norman village of Choseville. Less bold French sunlovers belong to the Société Naturiste, retire to the mid-Seine island of Médan ten miles northwest of Paris. There, in a four-year-old bungalow colony called Physiopolis, they disport themselves in brassières and ''modesty belts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: At Physiopolis | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...invade her dressing room. After her maid positively assured them that Miss Miller had no extra underthings in her room, a stocking and a step-in were sent out, autographed "With love & kisses from Marilyn." Second prize was split between the couples who brought back Fanny Brice's brassiére and Pola Negri's stepin. Other actresses who yielded underclothes: Hope Williams, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Jean Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scavenging | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

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