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Last week the Dominican Republic's Ambassador to Brazil stalked into the Foreign Ministry at Rio de Janeiro, delivered a formal protest. Subject: ribald Brazilian gibes (specifically, a ribbing story in O Globo) at an international marriage. The bride: nubile Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold) Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican Republic's Dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The groom: plump, baldish Brazilian Industrialist Antenor Mayrink Veiga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Flower of Gold | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...Lady Maureen Stanley. The "tea" is usually a drink or two, and the company an informal collection of R.A.F. air vice marshals, pilots, war correspondents and others invited to meet George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The King's manner with his airmen is easy, comradely. The King likes ribald stories, has a large store of them, enjoys standing in a corner with a knot of men swapping ribaldries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of England | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...turns a Tarkington fable about two teenage stepsisters into a smoking-car joke. During a raid on a roadhouse, one of the sisters and one of her sister's discarded boy friends are found in an upstairs room. Eventually, of course, it turns out that people had very ribald imaginations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...four days, balding, humorless Post Office Attorney Calvin Hassell, a pious man and a Boy Scout worker, led witnesses on a sexy jaunt through a collection of ribald material culled from eleven Esquires. Spectators had the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Experts Failed to Blush | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

Seigle, Bert Schwartz, and Henry Leff were constantly appearing in the spot-light throughout the evening. The three comedians had everybody's ribs aching when they appeared in outlandish Army costumes and sang several ribald verses under the title of "We're the Misfits of the Battery...

Author: By Frank K. Kelly, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 8/31/1943 | See Source »

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