Word: nudeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Patricia ("Satira") Schmidt's violation of Latin good manners as it was over the fact that she killed her lover, John Lester Mee, with a .22 pistol. In sentencing Cootch-Dancer Schmidt to 15 yeacs for manslaughter (TIME, Feb. 2), the judges had chided her for "appearing nude on the deck of [Mee's] yacht like a nymph," and for "swimming naked in [Havana] Bay." Said Toledo-born Satira: "They just don't understand our customs...
...talk later with News-Herald Reporter Hal Malone, the Archbishop got down to brass tacks. Said he: "Such demonstrations are accountable for the lust and rape that we read about almost daily . . . You would have to be an iceberg to be in the same room with a semi-nude woman and not be subject to immoral ideas...
...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...
...painting received more attention than all the others put together. It was a frothy bit by pink-cheeked, prosperous Jean-Gabriel Domergue. France's fashionable painter of the moment, Domergue has created a type of nude (tall, slim, boyish, with tiny, upturned breasts) that is as stylized as the Petty girl...
...outline." "I couldn't stand even that," said Mrs. Lambert. "Let's put a dripping dagger through the head, then," suggested Charlie. "I could do that for nine shillings." It was no go. "Well," said Charlie, "I could cover it with a nice nude and a Latin inscription." "No more women," said Mrs. Lambert. At last Charlie had an idea. "Why not a snake? That would cover it." Cecil Lambert, who hadn't said a word, started from his lethargy. "Can't stand snakes," he cried. "Dream of them ever since I saw them in Burma...