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...wife of a night truck driver. One night last June a gang of robed Klansmen broke into her house, accused her of "dancing nude on her front porch," renting rooms to unmarried couples, and selling whisky. They hit her a couple of times, then hustled her outside in her nightgown to watch a cross burn on her front lawn. ("It sure was pretty," testified a neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: It Sure Was Pretty | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...miles away, Mrs. Hugh McDanal, 42, dressed in nightgown and slippers, was talking to a friend on the telephone. Her truck-driver husband was away on a night run. There were sounds of footsteps on the porch and men's voices demanding to be let in. She screamed for the friend to call the police, and grabbed a shotgun. The neighbors rushed in, slugged her and wrested her gun away. She snatched off several of their hoods. "We could kill you for that," one told her. They dragged her outside to watch a cross burning on the front lawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: A Call from the Neighbors | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...B.V.D. Corp. began manufacturing the masculine equivalent of the black lace nightgown-pajamas decorated with pictures of wolves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Sep. 13, 1948 | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...York Post Columnist Earl Wilson took off his clothes and attended a nudist convention at Sunshine Park, N.J. "If your wife wears a nightgown at breakfast," he wrote, "don't cuss her. Congratulate her. I looked rather thoroughly at these nude women and believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Children, says Mrs. Chaplin, should not be cursed with "Christmas card angels and depictions of an effeminate Jesus in a long, white nightgown. The simplicity of the old masters-for example. . . Fra Angelico-are loved by most children if they have not had the overdose of sentimental pictures beforehand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Straight, No Sugar | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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