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Clad in a skirt of pink ostrich feathers, orchid bodice, and silver shoulder straps, Toe-Dancer Sarah Churchill, daughter of British Tory Winston Churchill, made her debut in Boston in four-a-day vaudeville with Comedian Vic Oliver, to whom she is reported engaged (TIME, Sept. 28). Insisted she: "I'm here for work and not for love." Said he: "I don't dance...
...tell me, in a few words, the object and accomplishments of the recent convivial, skirt-dancing junket of the Governors of the drought-stricken States called by President Roosevelt, and in which he took the leading role...
...season half over, hawkers were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade at the Cafe Bazar was rivaled only by that at a tearoom just opened by Count Ludwig Salm, and thousands of Auslander from everywhere were strolling Salzburg streets in Dirndln (peasant waist, skirt & apron) or Lederhosen (leather shorts with gay suspenders) from Joseph Lanz's smart shop...
...Kent who, he had noticed, was then much in the news. Last week Kata Ragoso. now 34, was striding the streets of San Francisco, his bushy hair blowing, his small white teeth gleaming, his sturdy black legs and large black feet entirely bare beneath the dark-blue serge skirt, of tivi tivi, which distinguished his otherwise orthodox business attire, Chief Ragoso was in the U. S. partly as observer, partly as exhibit. at the 43rd general conference of Seventh-Day Adventists from all over the world. As observer, Kata Ragoso was chiefly struck by painted white women. Having supposed that...
...went young Richards to enlist in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was younger than the age he gave the recruiting sergeant, but well set-up and handy with his dukes. He soon got the hang of barrack life, and was enjoying his beer and his "bit of skirt" with the best. He took his part in many a pub-brawl, many a dangerous jest. When an ignorant young officer had him "crimed" for a dirty rifle (which was actually clean) and his attempts to establish his innocence only got him into hotter water, he learned another piece of old soldier...