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Died. Rose LaRose, 59, ecdysiast extraordinary whose artistry as a burlesque stripper earned her $2,000 a week during the 1940s; of cancer; in Toledo. A five-foot-two brunette, LaRose began working as a cashier in New York City's Minsky's Theater at the age of 14 to buy herself clothes for school. She quickly graduated to the stage, then to stardom, and in her heyday paid as much as $2,500 per costume. After her retirement from the runway in 1958, she managed her own burlesque house in Toledo before hard times forced its conversion...
...proposing a ban on oil in Texas or oranges in Florida. Nevertheless, preaching that strip mining is a "cancer of the earth" that mutilates the hills "like a knife slash through a painting," Rockefeller supports the expansion of deep mining, a far less unsightly operation. "When I see one stripper working," he says, "I see three deep miners out of work." So do the mineowners-and that is one reason why they are solidly aligned behind Moore, a native West Virginian and a supporter of strip mining...
...traditional byword of American bluestockingism is "banned in Boston." And when it comes to obscenity Elijah Adlow, chief justice of the Boston Municipal Court, is something of a hard-nose. Yet last week he lodged a rather curious protest against lewdness: he dismissed the case against a stripper who got carried away...
Once before, in the mid-1950s, striptease was briefly encouraged by Warsaw as an indication of liberalism. But then one stripper caused a sensation by dressing in native costume as Polonia, the symbol of the Polish nation, and stripping in three stages until her only attire was a set of chains. That supposedly symbolized Poland's captivity after its partition by the Austrians, Germans and Russians in the 19th century. But the act could also have been interpreted as a comment on Poland's fate under the Communists. A short time later, stripping was prohibited in Poland...
Barnstorming through Florida, Presidential Candidate Hubert H. Humphrey had a serendipitous confrontation with one of Tampa's more compelling voters. Cielito Lindo is a dusky, almond-eyed Puerto Rican farm-girl-turned-stripper with 38-24-36 to show for herself. The candidate personally pinned an H.H.H. button on Cielito's well-cloven chest. "Come over here," he said, munching a sandwich and patting the seat next to him. "Tell me, what is your real name?" Then, while press cameras clicked, he did not exactly steal a kiss...