Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's Gridiron Widows party was one of the most intimate shows ever seen at the White House. Not counting a burlesque of burlesque in which a plump newshen did a strip tease, another in red flannel underwear did a fan dance, there was a scene in which one of the characters suggested that the Roosevelts "must like people; they marry so many of them," in which was outlined (but not played) a scene between Mrs. Roosevelt and Queen Mary, discussing their sons' prospective marriages...
These three countries form an uninterrupted strip of territory stretching 800 miles clear across Europe from the Baltic to the Black Sea-with Communism on their eastern borders. They could be Europe's "Bastions of Peace," interposed between the antagonistic realms of Stalin and Hitler, and last week newsorgans in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Rumania were giving great play to this slogan, "Bastions of Peace...
...Actually George Grosz is as "Aryan" as Hitler. In the U. S. he has continued his biting attack against war and fascism, is proud of his suburban house, his two sons, Peter, 10, and six-year-old Martin who expects to be a comic-strip artist (see cut), his little coupe, his U. S. clothes, proudest of all of his electric icebox...
...Cartoonist Reuben Lucius Goldberg astounded the newspaper trade by suddenly abandoning the grotesquely exaggerated pictorial humor which had made him rich & famed. In place of the hilarious daily strip which the McNaught Syndicate was happily selling far & wide, "Rube" Goldberg offered a serious, human-interest character named Doc Wright, similar in tone but not in inspiration to Gasoline Alley's benign Walt Wallet. Within ten months, the solemn doings of Doc Wright were beginning to bore Artist Goldberg as much as they did many a reader. Though Doc Wright still appeared in more than zoo papers, independently wealthy Artist...
...first is a hurdle equipped with rollers on the bottom so that when it is hit by a hurdler passing over it, it will roll over easily rather than offering any resistance to him. Another feature of this hurdle, which is designed to meet practice needs, is a strip of canvas which replaces the top bar. Thus any hurdler who clips it will not have his ankle skinned...