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Word: nudes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea of the "rays", not new, but come close to home, breeds startling ramifications. What boots a Bermuda trip at the peril of permanent indigence, or long weeks of semi-nude labor in the single sculls when the golden brown reward can be reaped with five minutes a day under the Actinic glow? Along with William Blake's little man on the ladder reaching for the moon, the cry of the undergraduate will be "I want, I want." A set of violet rays in the squash courts could do much toward alleviating this new form of malnutrition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A RAY OF HOPE | 1/12/1928 | See Source »

...thanks; one nude man in the room is enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

When questioned as to what he considered an ideal method of educating and bringing up children, he told of the new school that he and his wife had started in England. Composed of about twenty children who are permitted to run about nude if they desire, the school is run without a thought of teaching them the convention of decency. "We do not take in any children after they are over seven years old, but once they are in, we try to keep them until they are 18 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAYS AMERICANS ARE TOO FEMININE | 12/9/1927 | See Source »

THIS WILL be made up for BY EXTRA length of TROUSERS and extremely WIDE BELL bottoms REACHING to the ground AND thus covering up the NUDE pedal extremities...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

...porous plasters on Mr. Knauff's chest, back, abdomen. Mr. Knauff got well. Then Mr. Glauber peeled off the plasters, peeling off also Mr. Knauff's means of livelihood in a circus, to wit, a tattooed portrait of Abraham Lincoln (chest); assorted tattooed landscapes, ships, anchors, Uncle Sams (abdomen); nude females, South Sea Islanders, palms, boats (back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defendant | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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