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...mutton. Diane, accustomed to Broadway's anticipatory outburst of clapping, was nonplussed but stuck to her strip-tease routine. The next move, she thought, would get them. Sinuously she let fall from her creamy shoulders a vast chiffon cape, then, striding rapidly to the wings, unsnapped her split skirt, showed a shapely thigh just before she disappeared. In vain Stripper Raye waited for the accustomed wild uproar indicating that the audience wanted to see more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Stripping & Unstripping | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Agent Gray was seeking to explain the wreck of the fishing steamer Lord Ernli, fourth vessel this year to run ashore on craggy Flamborough Head. This sharp promontory sticks out nearly ten miles into the North Sea between Scarborough and the River Humber. Coasting vessels skirt it closely and an abnormal number have lately been getting into trouble. Besides the four recent wrecks, many a craft has just managed to stop or back away in time to avoid piling up on the shore. Agent Gray believes that so many ships have foundered there that the point is almost completely girt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flamborough Magnet | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Elaine Fraser, the Radcliffe winner, and third in the whole match, dressed in a trim blue woolen skirt and a blouse and low-heeled shoes, made the following statement for publication: "If I told you what I really thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE ORTHOGRAPHERS MEET DEFEAT TREMULOUSLY | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...sleeves should at least cover the elbows, and the skirt fall far below the knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Modest Creed | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...indicate that he was a demon of light or fire. Despite the fact that his hands are bound behind him and his assailant is stepping on his toe, the monster nonchalantly faces what in a newspicture would be the camera, the better to show his single eye. The flounced skirt which he wears was obsolete as ordinary apparel in Mesopotamia at the time of the carving (about 2,000 B.C.) and according to Dr. Frankfort the artist bungled its design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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