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...ever issued to a woman. Last week, in the State examination for referees. Intruder Martell got 97½. a higher mark than any of the 23 male applicants. After looking her over in the official grey trousers, however, the State Commissioners told Referee Martell she could wear a grey skirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Madame Referee | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...London's Windmill Theatre featured "The Platinum Goddess," a pretty dancer whose brassiere and skirt were torn off by a male dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strip Strip Hooray | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...these blessings Knott County mountaineers thank aging Alice Lloyd-now 63, hale & hearty in her sweater-&-skirt director's uniform. But for all their education, there is still life in the mountaineers of Caney Valley. Out of sheer high spirits, on moonlight, moonshine Saturday nights they occasionally put a bullet or two through the gateway sign, pepper the headmistress's house with slugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School in Caney Valley | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...opened with a lively debate between opposing counsel over whether privacy was a 1) civil, 2) political or 3) property right. Judge Roy V. Rhodes quickly put a stop to this argument, got down to bare facts. Miss Lawrence, wearing a tight-fitting red sweater and black & white checked skirt, was called to the stand. Good & loud, she told her story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Privacy in the Bath | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...course, the perfect mate, as she was going to be, would never mind living in tatters if civilization and humanity were to be served. But then, it was possible that she wouldn't look as well in rags as she did in her Cashmere sweater and Trimingham's sport skirt. For a wild moment Vag wondered what was the quickest way to the fame and fortune which were certain to come his way sooner or later. A job with the Times, a year or so of brilliant dispatches filed from Bucharest, and then--Vag, freelance writer; Vag, special adviser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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