Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing so stirs the heart of a navy man as a picture of embattled frigates spitting billows of cannon smoke at each other across a strip of wreck-laden...
...committee has already suggested a name for the affair, to which all dancers will be expected to come dressed as characters from the funnypapers. However, Lyford has rejected the name put forward on the grounds that it is "salacious and misleading." The suggested title was, "The Lowell House Comic Strip Dance...
Boasting skill at shelling peanuts, singing, dancing the hula hula, strip teasing, and being a Harvard man, some twenty Yardlings have signed up for the contest...
Meanwhile the managers of London's popular El Morocco bottle club were haled into Bow Street Police Court for putting on a strip-tease competition among female guests, the winner to be awarded a full-length nude of herself by Painter Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, R. A. Commented the official German radio: "The best people of London amused themselves by very strange contests. During [a] trial ... it came out that the idea of these contests was: who is the quickest in undressing? Especially the young ladies of London society took part in these contests. The girl who was the first...
...idea was to electrify a strip of metal around the building's base. When a dog stopped to relieve himself, an electric current would pass up the stream, shock the dog and dissuade him from repeating his act. There was no question of the novelty of that. Scrupulous patent attorneys try to dissuade the concocters of such whizz-bangs from wasting their money on patents...