Word: loin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deplore the law compelling me to fine young men for the natural and healthy act of rolling down their bathing suits to the waist," declared Judge Stafford. "The day is coming when Australians will regard a loin cloth a sufficient covering and when young men will be proud to display fine, manly, suntanned figures...
...Number 15 by Brahms-Gericke; La Source, Ballet Suite, by Delibes, including Scarf Dance, Love Scene, Variation, and Circassion Dance; Scheherazade, Finale by Rimsky-Korsakov; Large by Handel (Solo violin--J. Theodorowicz, Harp, Organ, and Strings); Dance by Debussy, arranged by Ravel; "Of Thee I Sing" Selection, by Gershwin, "Loin du Bal" by Gillet; "Pomp and Circumstance" by Elgar...
...find the valley where the long-tusked elephants die, she accepts all hardships calmly and only squeals once, when she topples over a precipice and is barely saved by a ragged rope. The final test of her imperturbability comes when she is kidnapped by a yodeling athlete in a loin cloth who swings her up to his nest at the top of a tree and turns out to be Tarzan of the Apes...
Next morning Disciple Madeline Slade, daughter of a deceased British Admiral, hastily washed all the Mahatma's loin cloths, so that he might not lack fresh ones in jail. Meanwhile leading British and Indian merchants and businessmen peppered the Viceregal Court with telegrams, cables. They reminded Lord Willingdon that Mahatma Gandhi's arrest would mean a trade loss of millions of dollars to the Empire, since it would unquestionably provoke a fresh Indian boycott of British goods. Even the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, George Lansbury, successor to James Ramsay MacDonald as Parliamentary Leader of the Labor Party...
...will wear my habitual dress of loin cloth, shawl and sandals. If the King prescribes European dress I will be obliged to decline the royal invitation. It must be remembered I am a humble servant of India's impoverished millions and must dress as they dress-nothing more and nothing less. As a matter of fact the King's invitation is unconditional...