Word: nudeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...menageries, "after wartime dispersal throughout occupied Europe, are back in slightly thinner, but no less entertaining, form." And for the tired businessman from Kankakee, the famed beauties at the Folies Bergère "will be acting with even more abandon now that warm weather is here. Last winter their nude bodies were often blue with cold, and electricians had to work overtime devising lights that would give the proper hue to the frigid form divine...
With regard to the scruples of a certain lady about the nude bathing on the Riga Beach [TIME, May 12] . . . may I inform you that the Riga Beach lies behind a natural wall, about 20-30 feet high, formed by sand dunes covered with Scotch pine-Pinus sylvestris...
...Thus the nude bathers-men from 8-10, and women from 10-12 a.m.-enjoyed full privacy and protection from peepers...
Some of Marchand's new paintings, indeed, looked almost like a game of cherchez la femme: his complex, leafy compositions half concealed an ever-recurring nude, as glossy and distorted as a figure on an Etruscan vase...
...factual enough. Only 17% thought advertising prose "silly." But more than half thought advertising was often in bad taste. They objected to detailed references to bodily functions, ads with the gossip theme (the "careless" beauty who becomes a social outcast) and sexy illustrations (44% would completely ban the nude or semi-nude...