Word: undressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been hearing about his Hanoverian relatives. Breaking point of his German adventures is when he sees how an old baron avenges the seduction of his niece and her daughter by a lecherous nobleman. Covering the lovers with a pistol, the baron reads Old Testament verse, orders the lecher to undress his mistress, then slits his eyeballs...
...autobiography appeared last week, doubles the estimate. Whether or not Bertha is always strictly accurate in her figures or her facts, her narrative is cauliflower-ear-marked by the brutal truth, wears no wig. Beside Sister of the Road, such recent revelations as Mark Benney's Angels in Undress and John Worby's The Other Half, pale into comparative respectability. Bertha's birthright was a mess. Her mother, a handsome blonde who advocated and practiced free love on her father's Kansas farm, had four children, each by a different man, took to the road when...
Alighting from a train at Ogden, Utah attired in his Rear Admiral's undress uniform, Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd was taken for a stationmaster, passed up by the officials sent to greet him. In Kansas City's Union Station, a woman had handed him a lost purse. Said Admiral Byrd: "Begins to look as if I'll have to do something about...
...courage and curiosity of Sir Joseph led him to undress in an ice-cold room...
...decide for himself whether he would look better in the gaudy stockings of the Gordon Highlanders, the befrogged jackets of the Royal Horse Artillery, the white-plumed bearskin of the Royal Scots Greys, the brass helmets of the Royal Dragoons. Those who choose humbler regiments are handed new undress or "walking out'' uniforms that make them look almost as spruce as Guardsmen...