Word: nudists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Diego, Calif., Florence (''Tanya") Cubitt, 20, lissome, blonde employe of the California Pacific International Exposition's Midway nudist colony, won national notoriety by the simple device of telling newshawks, before she got on a plane in Los Angeles, that when she got out at Chicago she would be naked "to advance the cause of nudism." Chicago cameramen mobbed the plane, were chagrined when Miss Cubitt emerged fully dressed. She hastened to explain that the plane's pilots and stewardess had forced her to keep her clothes on. However, she promised to be naked when she landed...
...Diego, Calif., a proposal for a nudist colony as a publicity stunt for the California Pacific International Exposition drew a protest from the Braille Club for the blind of San Diego...
Dear Nancy: I joined a nudist colony near Paris. . . . While there, a scholarly, paunchy old gentleman clad only in a pince-nez, read Hudson's Green Mansions...
...Order of the Golden Fleece, Colonel of the Imperial & Royal Army of Austria-Hungary; of apoplexy; in Berlin. Archduke Leopold caused a sensation in 1903 by giving up titles, power and wealth to marry an actress (Vilma Adamovic), divorced her four years later when she became a nudist and vegetarian, married a servant girl (Marie Rirter), became by turns a cabaret entertainer, bartender, railway clerk, subscription canvasser, insurance agent, actor, doorman, domestic servant. He died in poverty...
...Diego last week Exposition-goers paid 25? to enter Zoro Gardens "nudist colony." Scores of gawpers saved the admission price by pressing their eyes to knotholes in the fence...