Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre of and for the people, cheap, artless and dirty. But, unlike the vanished commedia, Burlesque has continued its raffish existence against the competition of cinema and radio through the ministrations of a new character, possibly the U. S.'s only original contribution to the drama: the strip woman...
...Strip women (or strip teasers, as they are called in the trade) do not dance, and the ability to sing is by no means an essential. They stalk about the stage, exercising blandishments and removing as many clothes as local authorities will permit. They are largely responsible for the fact that, with eight empty first class theatres in Manhattan, three burlesque houses on 42nd Street alone are jampacked nightly...
...Best-dressed" seniors at America's leading colleges are definitely against the clumsy old-fashioned fly. Though they prefer the smooth flat slide-fastened fly, they are also opposed to the uncovered zipper which displays a strip of bare metal. Kover-Zip, the invisible seamline closure demanded by good taste, has won approval in college from coast to coast. Here are a few typical comments on Kover-Zip by college they selected as "best-dressed...
...more rays come from the west than from the east. Hinting his disillusionment with manned balloons, Dr. Compton has begun a mountaintop and sounding-balloon survey. Dr. Millikan, in the current Physical Review, has kind words to say for the Settle-Fordney flight. In his article he reproduces a strip of film from the automatic electroscope aboard the Settle-Fordney balloon, one of the few real trophies ever brought down from stratonauts' stunts aloft...
...wrecks belong to the salvager. Few readers of 1954 would protest the claim of Salvagers Nordhoff & Hall to the Bounty, beached by mutineers on Pitcairn's Island in 1789. Others had been there before them, but Authors Nordhoff & Hall did more than strip the wreck of what was left. Bit by bit they salvaged or reconstructed every piece of the Bounty's history. Last week they finished the long job: in Pitcairn's Island they gave the third and final chapter of this magnificent true story of the sea. (Others: Mutiny on the Bounty-TIME...