Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles Examiner found a tiny Paramount advertisement saying: "Important feature. For information call VA-2041 [the theatre]." In the same issue they found a large advertisement of a Negro burlesque show, displaying two nude Negro women with the caption: "It's a hot, sizzling performance of black & brown skin revues! Daring, intimate, greatest array of beautiful brown-skin models, with 89 teasing beauties on the stage...
Under President Cunningham, who got his start as ''E. B." Butler's personal stenographer, Butler Brothers has changed its skin. Catering chiefly to small-town merchants, the company began to suffer in the 1920's. Automobiles and good roads, carrying shoppers to larger cities, cut into the rural merchant's trade. Better transportation also carried salesmen to the merchants that survived, undercutting Butler's mail-order business still further. Meantime chain stores were mushrooming...
...stages," Dr. Little continued, "there is absolutely no pain connected with cancer. It is merely the rapid growth of certain tissues far in excess of the surrounding ones. The thing to watch out for is the sudden enlarging or change in consistency of a mole or lump under the skin that one may have had since childhood. When this happens, competent medical examination should be made to determine whether cancerous tissue is involved in the change...
Waif right under the skin is brother...
...burlesque show into a life of adulation and luxury in Paris during the booming 1920's. In sex appeal to jaded Europeans of the jazz-loving type, a Negro wench always has a head start. The particular tawny tint of tall and stringy Josephine Baker's bare skin stirred French pulses. But to Manhattan theatre-goers last week she was just a slightly buck-toothed young Negro woman whose fig ure might be matched in any night club show, whose dancing & singing could be topped practically anywhere outside France...