Word: ecdysiasts
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...intense awareness of his contingency and freedom . . ."). Onetime Texas Congressman Maury Maverick's great contribution, gobbledygook, for the verbiage of officialdom, is also there, along with a learned note that it derives from the gobblings of turkeys. F.D.R. had contributed iffy (for questions) and H. L. Mencken ecdysiast (for stripteaser...
Even the constabulary gasped last night as Marie Cord, featured ecdysiast at the Howard Atheneum, recovered from an early evening, fully-clothed examination on WHRV by greeting CRIMSON reporters and photographers in the more homey surroundings of her in town boudoir...
...Ecdysiast Georgia Sothern managed to stay out of the hospital, but just barely. She reported for work at Boston's famed, faded Old Howard with a bunged-up brow, a bruised caboose, and a shocking tale. On the street the night before, said she, three strange men "appeared out of nowhere" and gave her a working-over. "So you would go to a nightclub?" cried one, and belted her in the forehead. (She had not been to any nightclubs, said red-haired Miss Sothern.) The other two walloped her on the crown, booted her from behind, chucked her into...
...Corio, veteran stripteuse, didn't believe it. "Renie shows that she doesn't know what she's talking about," snapped the uncharitable ecdysiast, "because 90% of the girls in Hollywood have nothing to expose in the first place...
Patrons of the RKO Theatre this week are faced with a movie that was banned in New York, if only temporarily, and a world-famous ecdysiast. What is unusual is that the movie has considerable merit and Sally Rand, who bares her years well, just doesn't go over...