Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nylon is not yet on the market, but Du Pont has given three girls at the New York World's Fair a pair of Nylon stockings apiece which they have been wearing steadily for the past three weeks. . . ." TIME, June 5 (p. 6). Hmm! Sotch feelthy enkles already...
...York World's Fair's amusement zone covers 280 acres - more ground than the entire Paris International Exposition of 1937. Yet, although the biggest in the history of Fairs, the amusement zone sticks pretty close to any canny Midway's rule-of-three : freaks, peeks and rides. The freak shows boast no overpowering monsters: there are the pigmies and giants, giraffe-necked women and two-headed cows. But of thrill-makers, the Fair has one wow, and for peepshows, in spite of police threats, it contains more public nudity than any place outside of Bali...
Peeks. At its worst, the Fair's nudity is so much peeping tommyrot. Unalluring are the Arctic Girls, frozen inside cakes of ice. Twittering and skipping about with bows & arrows, the droopy Amazons provide a mere comic-strip-tease. NTG's frightened-looking Sun Worshippers make customers the victims of a skin game...
...Levy, who runs a high-brow Manhattan art gallery; most of it by a group of oldsters with Broadway experience. Never publicity-shy, Dali, who recently broke one of Bonwit Teller's Fifth Avenue show windows because Bonwit Teller tampered with his display, is at present berating the Fair because it would not let him exhibit, outside his nuthouse, a woman with the head of a fish. Merrily upping the publicity, Dali's Dream of Venus has sent out a long press release headed: "Is Dali Insane...
...Fair's Jump is not the first one built for entertainment. Older - although only 185 feet high - is one in Chicago's Riverview Park...