Search Details

Word: nudists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Juan's Chinese adventures open in a California nudist colony, where Juan finds himself, "naked and ashamed"-for he is a right-thinking, old-fashioned philanderer -for love of the beauteous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Picaroon | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Excelling in his portraits of children and young married folk. Author Weller finds his hardest going in sketches of addled Bohemians and wistful old maids, breaks down entirely in his account of a nudist, makes little progress with his concluding story of an aged widow who looks forward to still greater mechanical marvels and wants to live to see them. His book is too crowded with well-to-do eccentrics to be a representative U. S. study. But literary motorists will object most to its pace, and reflect that no nation of murderously fast drivers ever chugged along so safely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Motormania | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Divorced. James F. Goodman, railway conductor & nudist; by Susie Wise Goodman; in Los Angeles. Grounds: desertion. Smartly attired, she explained to the bench that her "health wedding" to Nudist Goodman on the shores of Lake Elsinore (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933) was a "publicity stunt," that they had previously been wed, fully clothed, in New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 13, 1936 | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...swell being a nudist. Since I have been here in New York I have had lobsters almost every night and real French champagne. My press agent said for me to say that the girls in the night clubs besmirch the cause of nudism but I think they are very sweet. I would like to be in a night club myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Cubitt | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...healthy atmosphere to work in. Of course, my girl-friends think we have orgies and all that, but I never had an orgy yet. ... I am not engaged now but I have been engaged to four men and they thought it was all right for me to be a nudist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Cubitt | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next