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Word: stripping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years every time that one of Willard's comic strip characters referred to Moon Mullins as a "banjo-eyed bum," I have agreed with them that that is just what Mr. Mullins is. But I could never figure it out. Your issue of May 23 says, inter alia, "banjo-eyed Norman Klein." Do Klein's eyes look like banjos, or does Mr. Klein look like Moon Mullins? And another thing, that expression is the only one that angers our Mr. Mullins; a sort of "when you say that, smile" business. Are you not taking considerable chances that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1932 | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

When Reporter Klein worked for the Chicago Tribune his wife nicknamed him "Banjo-eyes" because his round eyes would frequently bug with astonishment like those of Moon ("Banjo-Eyes'') Mullins, hard-boiled Tribune comic strip character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1932 | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...Dark Horse (Warner) is the cinema's first travesty on affairs of state. Less savage than farcical, it show's how an addle-headed bumpkin is nominated for Governor and elected after losing his clothes in a game of strip-poker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The New Pictures: Jun. 20, 1932 | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...skin from another lid, from the inner surface of the arm, or from behind the ear. Skin from those places approximates the thickness of an eyelid. Lids thus mended may blink,' wink, close. If his patients insist, Professor Vilray Papin Blair, St. Louis lid-mender, transplants a strip from the eyebrow. Eyelashes from eyebrows usually look straggly. Professor Blair also makes eyebrows with grafts from the scalp. These tailor-made eyebrows require frequent barbering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. at New Orleans | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

Inserted between the "bits" and song numbers are the "strip acts." A chorus and one of the principals comes out. When the chorus leaves the stage the principal begins disrobing. Up to a certain point she will continue to take her clothes off so long as the audience whistles, claps and howls for it. Since the Depression the pulchritude of the strip artists and chorus has visibly increased. The Minsky acts differ from week to week almost solely in their titles, which run to punning. Last week's performance was called Eileen Dover From Aiken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Burlesque Suit | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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