Word: ribaldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peppers," in which an indignant, third-rate English variety team gives a provincial theatre a ribald Saturday night...
...eleventh in Motion Picture Herald's star-rating, Mae West is still one of Hollywood's highest paid ($150,000 per picture) celebrities, unique in two respects: 1) She writes her own scripts. 2) While other producers are trying to be dainty, she tries to be ribald. In Go West Young Man, derived from Lawrence Riley's play Personal Appearnace, her efforts are, as usual, successful...
...definitive is Editor White's account of how a group of Kansas editors and oilmen who had grown up together ran Alf Landon's pre-convention campaign which began "all hilarious and haphazard, all country town stuff . . . an amiable, neighborly, good-natured Kansas mutual admiration society, with ribald but affectionate swipes at the old 'Budget Balancer.' " It ended at Cleveland when the same group "managed to stumble through, and, by looking wise, seemed to be dominating the situation, which was controlled largely by guess and by grab, and, by good dumb luck, the situation always unfolded...
...Against his father's advice, Lawrence Saint apprenticed himself to a stained glass artist, scrimped and saved to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. At this time a deep religious experience led him to join the Presbyterian Church, worry about the propriety of painting nude females. Ribald fellow students tied him up, carried him by force to a model's stand where an undraped woman was posing. High-minded Lawrence Saint abashed his tormentors by keeping his eyes closed, walked out with dignity when released, loftily remarking: "Principle, gentlemen, in art as in other things...
...pays to ask questions," declared body-loving Publisher Macfadden. "Take my hotel down in Florida. If you could see how the girls dress down there! Nothing but a pair of shorts and two breast cups. It pays to ask questions! [Ribald laughter.] I'm sure you boys aren't thinking the same thing...