Word: undressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Georgia Sothern, Grand Old Lady of Undress, suffered a routine contretemps when police arrested her after a show in Wilmington. She was fined $125 and costs for lewdness in a tent...
...headed cockney sailors, and go through a song, dance and joke routine that can only be described as out of this world. The play progresses through a scene in their dressing room, where Miss Lawrence buffoons her way about the stage in various states of dress and undress, and ends on another vaudeville interpretation, this time with Payn and Miss Lawrence dressed in top hat and tails. It is the zenith of unadulterated entertainment...
...Molly and Lily. For the perennial Jeeter-type there is Jethro, Putt's shiftless farmhand brother. The strait-laced minister's young wife has "vitamin" binges with Molly on the sly, finally runs off with a salesman. "He [Rev. Bigbee] won't even let me undress without turning out the lights, and I have to wear long-sleeved nightgowns that drag the floor. This morning as soon as he left I took off all my clothes and ran out into the backyard and said 'God damn it to hell!' as loud as I could...
When Sonja Henie stepped off the plane after a Brussels-to-Paris flight, she was set upon by 18 French customs officials. "They marched me," Skater Henie reported, "right into a shed . . . where a lady customs agent with a small mustache told me to undress . . . everything, including my stockings and slippers. . . . They strewed the contents of my eight suitcases all over the place." Those two undeclared $100 bills that customs men found in her purse and confiscated? Sonja twittered: "It was just mad money I have carried for years in case of emergency, and I had forgotten all about...
...voice and brooding eyes, sparked the barrel of hatred. He picked a humdrum black soldier as the poor man's presidential candidate, promised the blacks the houses, cars and mistresses of the elite. When he visited poor black quarters, hordes of men, women & children in various states of undress pressed about his car, climbed on to it, beat voodoo rhythms on the fenders, danced and tumbled in ecstasy, roared: "Vive Fignol...