Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a crude shelter in the middle of a cornfield near Delphos, Ohio, one evening last fortnight a 36-year-old amateur astronomer scrutinized the northern sky through his 6-in. telescope. Ten degrees from the North Star he spotted an unfamiliar object, below naked-eye visibility. At that location...
Promising one of the heavens' most brilliant spectacles in recent years, the new Peltier comet, first of the season, gives indications that it will become visible to the naked eye just before sunrise during the latter part of July. No other comet has swum into man's unaided ken since...
On a late autumn day in 1934 the naked, bullet-riddled body of George ("Baby-Face") Nelson was dumped in a ditch near Chicago after a gun battle in which two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were also killed (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934). Shortly thereafter a surly, uncommunicative...
Ruggero Angiolini, member of the International Union of American Bricklayers, showed a picture of a naked young man lounging under a tree, "thinking about life" and entitled The Son of Civic Virtue.
¶ In St. Paul's Cathedral in London, 1,000 worshippers gawped when a shapely young woman of 25 walked to the altar, threw off a long cloak, knelt stark naked, was hustled out. In Rome where Pope Pius XI remained in ailing privacy Easter was the quietest in...