Word: immodest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immodest for a young girl to appear in public in a one-piece bathing suit...
...recorded the epithets which successive ages of good Americans had flung at progressive women: "In delicate" when they first wanted to study geography; "immodest" when they asked for physiology; "free lov ers," "frumps and freaks," "screaming sisterhood"; "pro-Germans" during the War; "Bolsheviki" after...
...Rome, Pope Pius offered a medal to that one of the Catholic Women's Diocesan Clubs that would evolve the most attractive modest fashion in women's clothing. The Clubs had inaugurated a campaign against immodest dress. The Pontiff's competition is divided into two parts: 1) a theoretic demonstration that immodest dress is silly, barbaric, uncultivated; 2) actual dress designs...
EXPRESSING WILLIE ? A sprightly satire, with two women engaged in the immodest pastime of laying a man's ego bare...
...General Leonard Wood in the Philippines brought him the Medal of Peace conferred by the Pope. The oldest and strongest Christian body in the Philippines is the Roman Catholic. Mgr. Beliveau, Archbishop of St. Boniface, Manitoba, categorically forbade women and girls to wear knickers in winter sports. "Dangerous and immodest...