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Word: undresser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dead Pigeon by Lenard Kantor is a three-character melodrama that is constructed like a superhighway: the audience is never in any doubt where the play is going; it is beautifully landscaped by Joan Lorring in various stages of undress, and -though everything moves along briskly enough-there is a certain sensation of monotony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...parade extended for about ten blocks and was followed by a 15-minute concert in Harkness Common, eliciting curses and missiles from adjacent dormitories. A crowd of almost 1,000 Yalies came down to watch--in various stages of undress...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Band Faces Court Action After 3 a.m. Yale Concert | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...shipyards and backyards where these hulls came from, still others remained. Their toiling owners, in various stages of undress, from bathing suits to paint-sprayed dungarees, were busy with the sailor's shore duties of scraping, sanding and painting, and devoting more loving care to the job than most of them would expend on their cars or their homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Design for Living | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...Baptist and St. Athanasius. Cried their leader, Father Augustinios Kantiniotis: "Public scandals are being prepared . . . exhibitions of naked bodies . . . Paul the Apostle wrote that Christian women should 'adorn themselves in modest apparel,' but the organizers of these orgies say, 'Don't listen to Paul . . . undress yourselves . . . and become known as Miss Universe!' Greeks, war veterans, mothers and fathers, shout, 'Down with these orgies!' . . . and, with the help of Jesus Christ, we will prevent Greece from being turned into another Hollywood." The Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church approved the stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Climax of Sin | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...mother undress him, only balking when she rubbed oil on his face and hair. "I have two friends here I play with," sputtered through the wash-cloth. "One is French, too, but you know," pointing to his head, "he's not so smart, and he is afraid of the animals. But the English boy whose father has the lions, is good. He knows what to do when a snake comes by. Do you know that...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Cabbages & Kings | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

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