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...approve of girls dancing without any covering whatsoever," Sally announced with emphasis. "I shouldn't feel properly dressed at all unless I had something on, and so I smear white clay on my body before each performance. Here in Cleveland the Police also make me wear panties, and, although the audience can't determine whether I have anything on a policeman is always around to make sure I am properly clad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Demand Sally Rand Wear Panties While Harvard Man Sees Advantage in Smaller Fans | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Cannonade. That last rebuke set off a cannonade of editorial rage. Angriest was Publisher Ogden Reid's arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune: "Here is . . . the first time that the President has publicly given support to the 'Smear America' campaign in which so many of his aides have participated. America has been made familiar with government by edict. Is it now to be subjected to 'government by insult?' The episode is of importance in relation to the constantly growing tendencies of the Roosevelt Administration to resent criticism, however fair, and to slander all who dare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Government by Insult | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

John Murray Anderson's Ziegfeld Follies is fast and funny. It remembers Ziegfeld only in title and opulent manner. It has magnificent sets: Fifth Avenue from a bustop, a store window, a huge smear of prairie with phantom cowboys and dogies.* It has Fanny Brice and little, shrugging Willie Howard with his brother Eugene, comedians of, by and for Broadway. It has beauteous Jane Froman and commanding Everett Marshall to sing. It has a pair of Astaire-like dancers in Vilma and Buddy Ebsen. It has an incredible acrobatic child named June Preisser. It has good songs: "Suddenly," "Moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...WESTWOOD MYSTERY-A. Fielding -Kinsey ($2). Suave Barrister Youdale doubts his acquitted clients, is smothered in bed. Scotland Yard's only clue : a smear of tangerine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Mar. 27, 1933 | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

Taking a tiny silver trowel with a mahagony handle-made from furnishings in the old court chamber-President Hoover dabbed a butter pat of mortar on stone. Chief Justice Hughes heaped the trowel full. Mr. Thompson did likewise. Then a master mason scraped off their dabs, spread a skilful smear of his own while four workmen gently swung into place a three-and-one-half-ton block of Vermont marble inscribed "A. D. 1932." Within the cornerstone Mrs. William Howard Taft, whose late husband as Chief Justice was, more than any other man, personally responsible for the new building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Cornerstone | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

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