Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shipowners were also well pleased by the move of the powerful New York branch of the N. M. U. to strip ships' committees of their power to discipline men during voyages. While the effect of this self-discipline was generally good, some shipmasters disapproved the principle-they believed it might mean divided authority. The proposal may meet intense opposition within the union, but the leaders favor it and there is little doubt of its passage...
...generation ago, when supple, stage-wise Mary Garden performed this apotheosis of the strip tease, she brought down the house. But when the teetering Swedish soprano, Goeta Ljungberg. undertook the role at Manhattan's Metropolitan in 1934, her chiffon-hung shuffling drew titters. Not only was Soprano Ljungberg a dithering dancer, she annoyed the cash customers by starting her dance costumed like a cyclone-swept handkerchief counter, finishing it fully clothed...
...came to the conclusion that "the best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages ... or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels." As a result, the characters in My Ears Are Bent - strip-tease artists, fan dancers, baseball players - chatter away with the utmost seriousness on subjects of whose absurdity they are unaware, or perform the unthinkingly idiotic gestures of people who think they are alone. One of Mitchell's unselfconscious heroes was Mr. Holton, self-taught authority on mass insanity...
...barn door because she insulted his fiancée. He hires a senorita from a Park Avenue brothel to pose as a Spanish countess. Promptly, Mrs. Townsend plans a dinner in her honor, where the countess, according to Muggy's plans will disgrace the dowager with a strip-tease act. The hitch comes when one of Muggy's best friends, three hours before the stripping, announces that he has wed the countess, thus insuring suitable third-act complications...
...internationally famed for an imposing list of orchestral suites, symphonic poems, piano concertos, songs and instrumental solo pieces. Sensitive and nervous by temperament (a mental breakdown hastened his death at 46), MacDowell loved the country, drew inspiration and titles for his music from nature. Eventually he bought himself a strip of wooded land near Peterboro in southern New Hampshire, where he spent his last years. Before he died he expressed a wish that this country refuge might be made available to other composers, paint-ters, writers who were anxious to work in country quiet. But the realization of his wish...