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Majority Leader Killgrew appealed to the higher emotions (not to say intellect) of his colleagues, remarking in scholarly fashion: "Why, even go back to Adam and Eve, and you find they even were a fig leaf," Fortunately no fellow-legislator cared to delve into the pre-fig leaf period and quote the twenty-fifth verse of Chapter two of Genesis: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."--but there was no second "person of the opposite sex" present, so that our first parents need not add a misdemeanor to their already heavy burden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLOTHES AND MORALS | 4/18/1935 | See Source »

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