Word: ecdysiasts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...join the air force. "To awaken America to her own desperate situation before it's too late," mustachioed Sculptor Stuart Benson, 63, onetime ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France, planned to tour the U. S., show films of the war zones. In Hollywood, Ecdysiast Faith Bacon announced plans to go to England as a nurse or ambulance driver. Disguised in cheap clothes and using an assumed name, black-eyed Cinemactress Luise Rainer was discovered working at a child refugee headquarters in Manhattan. Said she: "With world affairs inside out and outside in, this is no time...
Informed that H. L. Mencken has a name for strip-tease artists (TIME, April 29), Teaseuse Gypsy Rose Lee ejaculated: "Ecdysiast he calls me! Why, the man is an intellectual slob. He has been reading books...