Word: loinclothed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...customers get them after they have paid up all of a $20 fee for lessons), stop stating that his course relieves skin diseases and constipation, tone down his claims that he can make his customers look something like himself ("World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" in a leopardskin loincloth). Hopping mad, Strongman Atlas gritted: "Why don't they leave me alone with all the important work I got to do in the world? I really think I'm doing the cleanest work of any man livin' today...
Charles Atlas, mail-order musclebuilder who admits that he is the "World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" and poses for pictures in a simple leopard-skin loincloth (TIME, Feb. 10, 1936), inserted the following advertisement in the New York Times: "LIVE LEOPARD CUB WANTED; coat perfectly spotted. . . ." Explanation: Mr. Atlas was dissatisfied with his current pelt because it was irregularly marked...
...college man, as a soiled white football. When he fished it ashore he saw that it was an egg, and its great size recalled to his mind the stories he had heard around village fires of a mighty bird that once roamed the island. Wrapping the prize in his loincloth, he ran with it to the chief of his village. Word of the find sped from hut to drowsy hut, and after sundown the natives jubilantly shouted and danced the war dance which they call the berida...
...Yorkers jammed a theatre to overflowing this week for the U. S. debut of Serge Lifar. But when the evening was over consensus was that Lifar's "mantle" was threadbare and worn beyond recognition. If it had ever been Nijinsky's it had shrunk to a loincloth. Like Nijinsky, everyone wanted to know if Lifar could jump. He could and it was a pretty jump, but not impressively long or high. He could do smooth, floating arabesques. He leaped once into the air. did a picturesque wriggle and landed gracefully curled up on his side. But his dancing...
Queen Mary smiled provingly. Mr. Gandhi was not in "morning dress" as the royal invitation had requested (TIME, Nov. 9) but he was wearing a loincloth wider by a thumb's breadth than usual, and a shawl of homespun. Queen Mary saw nothing unseemly, betrayed the merest flicker of interest as she espied the Mahatma's dangling dollar watch...