Word: nudeness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Besides miniature bananas, palm trees and pedigreed dogs, Ben has also trimmed hats with models of penguins, reindeer, Ferdinand the Bull, Red Cross nurses, Chinese coolies with water jugs, and nude "Folies-Bergère" dancers. He is already planning for the 1944 elections: hats trimmed with elephants and donkeys. But his biggest innovation for the out-of-this-world hat business is his refusal to sell any hat exclusively...
Maude Phelps Hutchins, sculptress wife of the University of Chicago's president, had a life-size male nude all ready for casting in bronze, but no bronze. She wrote to WPB's Donald Nelson, asking how about letting her have some idle bronze on loan, if she promised to give it back the moment it was needed? The reply she got from Washington, "apparently written by one of Mr. Nelson's secretaries," counseled patience and looked forward to the postwar world. She wrote again, got more advice. Her young man of plaster (with hands held determinedly behind...
...London and capture the Home Guard General in a Turkish bath. The young officer looks down on the towel wrapped about Blimp's droopy paunch and says: "Well, all I can say, Sir, is that when Napoleon said an army marches on its stomach. . . ." From his full, majestic, nude height Blimp replies: "Let me tell you that in 40 years' time you'll be an old gentleman too, and if your belly keeps pace with your swollen head you'll have a bigger one than...
Dopesters thought that the change would make but little difference in the April election. Same day, standing in front of a huge, nude painting of the birth of Venus in the Morrison Hotel's Mural Room, Ed Kelly had been handed a 6-ft. stack of petitions by his ward heelers re-nominating him as Democratic candidate for Mayor. Ed Kelly had said: "There comes a time in every man's life when he says, 'I've been in long enough, let's give someone else a chance.' But that time...
Unlike the civilian Terry, the Army's version has had no continuity; each week's strip has been built around a separate gag and decorated with damsels as breasty and near nude as Caniff dared draw them. One strip had Caniff's famed, shapely "Burma" entertaining Yanks at a dinner at which food was hauled in by slave girls apparently unclad from the waist up. As bulge-eyed soldiers stared entranced, Burma asked: "Why don't you guys eat? Is something too spicy?" In another, soldiers staged a camp show, used cantaloupe to give feminine allure...