Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-four hours after Congress met, the peace-lovers were ready. Senators Pittman, Nye and Vandenberg had their say but the wrangle which might well have taken place was postponed in deference to haste. Only major Senate action was to strip the resolution of its eloquent whereases to clauses forbidding shipment of arms to civil-warring Spain, provide a $10,000 fine and five years in prison as maximum penalty for disobedience. It was passed...
Above the broad Tappan Zee, above Haverstraw, above the ledge-hugging concrete strip of U. S. Route 9 W rises a palisade actually called High Tor. Storms lash it furiously. And Playwright Anderson believes that the airplane beacon on its top was twice bowled over by stormy Dutchmen marooned for three centuries on High Tor, waiting for a ship to take them back to Amsterdam from the dark side of the world...
...Three pages about Queen Mary's hats, with the late George V remarking, balloon-wise like a comic-strip character, ''Mary, I don't like that hat. I can't see your hair...
...Mexican Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio, almost lifesize, in color. ¶A "composograph" (frankly doctored picture) of Gypsy Rose Lee. strip teaser, in conversation with Mrs. Harrison Williams, "world's best-dressed woman." Sample imaginary dialog: Williams: "I never wear the same thing twice. And you?" Lee: "I never put off tomorrow what I can put off today...
...number. "Buy Yourself A Balloon," sung while uncomfortably suspended over the audience in an electrically lighted quarter-moon, will be missing the high point of this comedienne's career. She is also pretty funny as a noisy first nighter, a haughty Theatre Guild box-office clerk, a strip tease artist. Best tunes: Now (Vernon Duke & Ted Fetter), Little Old Lady (Hoagy Carmichael & Stanley Adams...