Word: immodest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Monsignor Marmaggi: " Only those decently dressed are allowed to enter. The Holy Father has forbidden immodest dresses in the palace...
...division between the modest and the immodest was made, and only the modest were allowed by the Swiss Guards to enter. Some of the immodest women went to nearby stores and bought tulle, with which they draped arms and necks, after which they were allowed to enter. The Vatican action is taken in support of the crusade of the Bishops against present fashions...
...worse than the "up-to-date" girl -- who, in turn, will become "the old-fashioned" girl to a later generation. . . . The Hobart College Herald sums up the arguments of many of the attacks in this thoughtful fashion; "The outstanding objection to the modern dance is that it is immodest and lacking in grace. It is not based on a natural and harmless instinct for rhythm, but on a craving for abnormal excitement". The Dartmouth Jack-o'-Lantern: "We're a dizzy people. The shimmy proves that, without the ghost of a need for further proof". From the New York University...