Word: nudeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Godfrey took many a detour on the road to radio fame & fortune. He made a "nice dollar" selling cemetery lots as "investments," played M.C. in a Chicago saloon, "supported by the first nude chorus in vaudeville," and did a hitch as a Coast Guard radioman before he ever stood up to a microphone...
MINDEN, La.-The body of a 28-year-old Negro who "carried pictures of nude white women" was found beaten to death on the dam of a small lake near here last Friday, and deputy coroner Thomas Richardson today described the killing as a lynching...
...false as those plaster statues. You don't know what beauty is!" Isadora stripped open her costume, bared one of her breasts. "This-this is beauty!" she cried. Next day one of Boston's shocked newspapers reported that she had given a speech in the nude. Some of the other papers hinted that something scandalous had happened. Thereafter, says Hurok, the press reported Isadora as if she were a stripteaser...
...sweet boy, she reckons, but what good's Cupid without a bank balance?). By page 47, avid Roger has tracked Morina to the red-light district in Virginia City; and by page 60 he is suffering pangs of anguish at seeing his beloved stand up nude on a piano and offer herself up for auction ("she never looked more beautiful or more horrible"). But by page 174, Roger has wised up to the way of the world: he has forgotten all about being a Confederate spy; he has learned how to make money unscrupulously; and he has won Morina...
...second picture, the Duke was temporarily appeased; but something apparently went wrong, he found out the truth and promptly poisoned his unfaithful wife. Goya lived to be 82, and the two pictures became world-famous as La Maja Vestida (Gay Lady Clothed) and La Maja Desnuda (Gay Lady Nude...