Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While husbands jeered, hairdressers purred and hat-designers hovered, most U. S. women whorled when whorls were definitely the thing, went closely bobbed with shaven necks when that was decreed, had their ears hidden one year, naked the next.
The war would be no more cruel than Germany chose to make it, said Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax to the House of Lords. As to the war's futility, it was Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for the Dominions, the young hopeful, who went to bat. His was the...
Their feelings were understandable. Fresh in their memories was the scene when the torpedo struck: oil spurting into the air from exploded tanks; the bodies of firemen hurtling through a hatch; seasick, half-naked passengers rushing for the decks; and later, when the lifeboats were launched, passengers and crew picking...
Electrolux Tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren, whose yacht Southern Cross rescued 399 Athenians (TIME, Sept. 11), added to the picture in his story for a Swedish newspaper: "The rooms, hallways and decks were crowded with hundreds of half-naked people. Many had been lying in bed, seasick . . . had to rush out...
"All women would like things to happen swiftly and largely-but, the things they would have happen being so different from the things likely to happen, most of them prefer slow, small lives to naked contact with the insufficiencies that their times and their husbands represent." Thus expatriate Poet Laura...