Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Midway. Nobody ever got trampled inspecting a colt in the Horse Barn. But last week many a toe got stepped on while its owner ogled a filly named Jade Rhodora in that brawling half-moon of tents pitched east of the race track. Strip-Dancer Rhodora, who overnight became Des Moines' Sally Rand, took it all in the right spirit, announcing: "I wouldn't do a strip dance in a night club. ... I wouldn't do it at a stag affair either. This is different. The people are really good folks. They don't get to see much of this...
...Huntington, W. Va. Herald-Dispatch solemnly stopped publishing the famed comic strip, "Little Orphan Annie," last week on the ground that "Annie has been made the vehicle for a studied, veiled, and alarmingly vindictive propaganda...
...nation's ingot capacity down from 45% to less than 40%, Inland Steel has doubled its own ingot capacity since 1925. Last year it completed a four-year program of diversification by building a tin-plate mill. Its sales and profits this year came chiefly from sheet and strip steel...
More light was thrown on the character of that issue as the Senate investigation of Republican Governor Paul Martin Pearson's administration of the Virgin Islands droned into its second week in the sweltering Senate caucus room (TIME, July 15). Appearing with a strip of adhesive tape cocked over the eye which Columnist Robert S. Allen blacked for him last fortnight, mousy-looking Paul C. Yates called up the Islands' men of God to prove that gentle, idealistic Governor Pearson was somehow a blackguard. Witness Yates, ousted Pearson assistant and a prime instigator of 'the investigation, produced...
...such a hot day," dryly observed the senior judge, "that if such a thing were permitted the spectators would desire permission to strip too. No, no, Maitre Torres!'' And the Court rose to ponder its decision until this week...