Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enough pictures to open the Phillips Memorial Gallery in his home on 21st Street, Washington. Since then the collection has grown so large that paintings are crowding the family out. Another house is now being built where the family will live, but when they move they will not strip the 21st Street house of its furnishings. It is one of Mr. Phillips' theories that pictures should be seen in incidental surroundings, not in the vaultlike rooms of great museums. His collection is open to all visitors, but Mr. Phillips does not want it to be a rubberneckers' haunt...
Many a time has Captain Katzenjammer* famed obese comic-strip caperer, deceived his frau by making a balloon facsimile of himself, painting his vapid likeness on it, stuffing it into bed. Last week a helium-inflated Captain 50 feet tall floated off over Long Island. Fashioned by Tony Sarg, Manhattan marionetteer, the Captain, Hans und Fritz, Herr Inspektor & Frau Katzenjammer together with gargantuan balloon animals of indeterminate breed and sex, had bobbled down Broadway. An admiring crowd had watched their maudlin progress to the front of the R. H. Macy's (department store)?which they were advertising. There...
Every day in Vienna men and women gather in groups of 50 at the house of an uncouth old fellow who dresses like a farmer. Standing respectfully in a circle, they strip to the waist, permit him to approach and stroke them with the tip of an "electric pencil." It crackles softly as it passes over their flesh. Last week the Austrian Government announced that Herr Valentin ("Electric Pencil') Zeileis had just paid his tax on an income of $30,000 for last year. Not exactly a charlatan, Herr Zeileis does not claim to cure the people he strokes...
...Marquis is an ex-colyumist who has taken to writing "seriously." But he is still enough of the colyumist to feel that he should sugar the pill. In this book of short stories, the grim alternates with the comic strip, the eerie with the whimsical. Among the exhibits: a strong silent farmer overhears the hired man seducing his wife; Tim O'Meara tells his sons how his great diplomatic ancestor tickled the fancies of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary; the Old Soak exudes a tale of spiritual wickedness and liquor in high places; the powerful Katinka in a circus...
With the weather so hot yesterday that the fall baseball squad candidates were sent in to the showers after a half hour's workout Coach Horween had his University squad members strip off their heavy uniforms and run through a session that lasted from 2.30 until 5 o'clock. The linemen all discarded their jerseys while the backs and ends kept on nothing but their running trunks and track shirts...