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Word: leotard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motherly Dean of Women Carrie Taylor Cubbage an earnest wire: HELOISE MARTIN IS A GOOD GIRL STOP SHE IS ONE GIRL UNSPOILED BY BROADWAY. And Heloise convinced Dean Cubbage (but nobody else) that she had not posed nude in the shower, as the picture indicated, but in a "flesh leotard, which is similar to a bathing suit. And besides I understood the picture would show only from the shoulders up." Business Man ager Lytton sputtered that he had labored under the same misunderstanding. Snapped the Dean : "Drake does not intend to take any action." At week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Adventures of Heloise | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...these years Hoyer never forgot his paints. Brushes and canvas traveled with him in the same trunk with his spangled leotards and high-laced gilt boots. Every minute that he could snatch from the theatre he spent in museums or sketching in the country. Strongman Hoyer likes to boast that he has seen every famed painting in the world. His sextet broke up a few years after 1902 when it first arrived in the U. S. Torvald Hoyer became Understander for the Yoskary Trio, an Italian act. In 1915 he put away liniment and leotard for good, settled in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Neoterics' Acrobat | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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