Word: nudists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tucson, only far-Western city to object, the publisher of the Arizona Star sold 25 copies of LIFE over his own counter in defiance of the police. The Memphis Press-Scimitar contrasted the local ban on LIFE with open sale at the same time of Sex Guide, The Nudist and Tattle Tales. Though William Jay Schieffelin, vice president of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, thought "LIFE rendered a public service by picturing in a decent way the facts about the birth of a baby which every child should know," New York State's Knights...
Lopez' crusade had the enthusiastic support of D. A. R. President-General Mrs. William A. Becker. But Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, prominent anti-nudist, who helped to make the Star-Spangled Banner the official as well as actual national anthem, was scandalized, threatened to picket the theatre...
...were respectable anthropoid apes catching your first glimpse of a specimen of man, your modesty would be shocked by the spectacle of his obscene nakedness. Indeed, even to man himself it is a well-nigh insupportable sight, unless he be a savage devoid of culture, or a nudist devoid of sensibility...
Youngest, most eccentric in the year's rash of musical moppets is Chicago's David ("Dudy") Davis, 6, a violinist being kept under cover for later, safer release. A raw-vegetarian and nudist, Dudy is taken to school bundled in a large cape, stripped down to a loin cloth when he practices. Even so, he is sometimes too hot, and cries: "I'm sweating bullets...
Scornfully replied Nudist Spray, ''They're just sore because our meeting precedes theirs by two weeks. I didn't invite Curl here anyway. I am going to organize the Western Nudists' Alliance. We'll have more people here than Curl will have at six of his conventions...