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Word: nudists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last spring a New York City detective named Louis Barr found Vincent Burke, director of the Olympian League of Nudists, sitting at a desk in front of Topel's Swimming School. Mr. Burke had rented the establishment for a nudist assembly, in brazen violation, Detective Barr suspected, of State laws against lewdness, indecency and nuisances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Legal Nudism | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

From Columbia, S. C., Governor Ibra Charles Blackwood dispatched two constables "to see what can be done about the nudist situation" on Cat Island, off Georgetown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 3, 1934 | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...butlers have long been butts of humor. Depression or no Depression. Says Hawkins: "The hunger marchers are meeting in the grand ballroom, sir." It is the authors' theory that the nudist craze is simply the result of economic law. The pair on the jacket of their work are clad in barrels with shoulder straps. The wife coyly holds a small nail keg while her surprised husband asks: "Why didn't you tell me, dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soglow's Depression | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...Kentucky Legislature at its last session passed a law for the regulation of nudist colonies. The law calls for the appointment by the State Attorney General of a Nudist Colony Inspector. Since passage of the law Attorney General Bailey P. Wootton has been beset by jobhunters, some of whom would have been glad to take the job without salary. Last week Mr. Wootton received an application from a nearly ideal candidate who wrote: "I am 80 years old, a good Democrat and well qualified in every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Inspector | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Washington Market unemployed artists found a vacant meat stall, started an art sale. When market patrons showed interest only in one drawing, a nudist colony at play, the artists veiled the picture, sold peeps at a penny apiece. Market Director Aloysius Mallo appeared, took one perquisite peek popped: "Put that away or I'll put you out. That's too hot for my customers, I'll tell the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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