Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time-honored but unpleasant feature of bullfighting, national sport of Spain, is that phase of the performance wherein a picador enters the ring, mounted on a horse of small intrinsic value, and cajoles the bull into attacking his horse after he (the picador) has dismounted. The horse, unarmed, nude, often blind, invariably suffers heavy losses in an encounter of this kind. The bull gores him until tired; a team of mules then drag his remains to cover...
...nations. All are between five and eight, an age which, for the sake of argument, is thought of as sufficiently old to fend for itself amidst tropical abundance yet too young for sex-consciousness or lasting memories of home and parents. In their "flower-splashed paradise" the children run nude, wild and healthy. Clans form. Blood tells. A language, God, property, marriage, fire, alcohol, boats, song, dancing, war and many another accessory of civilization are evolved with much probability. There are fine openings for sardonic pros and cons on the late* Mr. George's favorite subject, Woman. Evolution...
...realism bores Parisians, German realism irritates them, Belgian Congo superrealism shocks them. Hanging in the private Gallerie Sur Realist on Mont Parnasse last week was a painting by a Congo Negro of a Congo Negro in a peculiar posture, nude except for a string of beads and a rope of silver ornaments. Parisian women, profoundly shocked, demanded that the unsightly painting be removed. Police investigated, ousted it from the public...
...bonk!" The Graphic started a "Woof! Woof!" contest-$1 each for "just little nifties" about the Brownings. Specimen: "Woof! Woof! Daddy Browning, real estate operator whose heart is rent." Graphic headlines: "PEACHES'S SHAME STORY IN FULL," "RAH, DADDY! HAIL, PEACHES!" There were semi-nude pictures of one Marion Dockrell, "female Oom," cult leader admired by Mr. Browning. Inane attention was paid to Mr. Browning's rubber eggs, baby dolls, clay puppies, infantile endearments, trick spoons. New screamer: "DADDY TO BECOME A MONK"-and a picture of the lecher in his office, the walls of which were entirely...
...Channel in 1923, and Clarabelle Barrett, the Pelham, N. Y., schoolmistress who stayed in the water of the English Channel 24 hours, and Mrs. Charlotte Moore Schoemmel (Manhattan favorite), very greasy, and Jean McKenzie who also refused to wear any bathing suit. There had been some trouble about these nude ones-preacher-men declared that, if the bodies of these athletes were exposed to view, there must be something indecent about the race...