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Word: nudists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Save for the conscientious Nudist, the forbidden publications were all smut sheets, compendiums of "art studies'' bearing such titles as Wild Cherries, Cupid's Capers, Hollywood Squawks. Heretofore the sale of questionable magazines in New York has been combated with the vague threat of criminal prosecution. But austere little Mayor La Guardia has new ways of doing things. His commissioner of licenses simply announced that anyone in his jurisdiction who was caught selling dirty publications would be put out of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESS: Smut Suppression | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Promptly to the aid of the Nudist sprang the scrappy Civil Liberties Union. Well aware that the license commissioner's powers to revoke were entirely discretionary, C. L. U. nevertheless wanted a test case on his powers to judge what was or was not obscene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESS: Smut Suppression | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...true that he intended to deliver a stump speech for re-election in a nudist camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: California Copy | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...been invited to visit the nudist colony at Elsinore and I am seriously considering. Sure, I realize clothes are not allowed. What I am worried about is how I can wear my buttonhole flower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: California Copy | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

Undoubtedly you arc in for an interesting time receiving protests for illustrating the Nudist Nuptials. Console yourself by imagining what the storm might be if you had staged the scene in your "March of TIME"-with television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1933 | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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