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Word: nakedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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By last week Hachiro Arita had made things so extra hot for Sir Robert that a French cartoonist, in a picture of the lonely parleys, showed Britain's Ambassador not only coatless, but pantless, shirtless, shoeless-stark naked. Sir Robert: "And if I give you my disgusting banknotes?" Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Concession on Concession | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

One of Willie's tales, which he learned from his grandmother and which takes hours to tell because it is replete with rich and often racy detail, concerns the tribulations of the Delawares after two women had misbehaved sexually with a dying bird. When the bird, dead, applied for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Willie's Tales | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

> Josephine and her crony, Madame Tallien, dancing naked together before Director Barras while Napoleon was in Italy. Each had been Barras' mistress.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Corporal to Coup d'État | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Sam Fox, an insurance collector, was coming down the stairs. He saw Ferguson, naked, reach out and seize little Lizzie, whisk her into his room, slam the door. Fox ran for a policeman. "You can't come in here!" Ferguson shouted to them. "Nobody can come in here but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Handy Man | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

In Johannesburg, South Africa, Professor Raymond Dart of the University of the Witwatersrand made a startling report: From the jungle where he had been reared by baboons, white policemen rescued a 12-year-old Negro. The boy could at first make only baboonlike noises. When he learned Afrikaans, he told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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