Word: navel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Variety, famed theatrical weekly which long frowned upon this type of quasi-naked performance, took cognizance of the importance of the burlesque stripper by sending Cecelia Ager, its star woman reporter, to interview the highest paid, best-known stripper in Burlesque. The navel of svelte Italianate Anne Corio is as well known to a large section of the public as the nose of Jimmy Durante...
Died. Mary Joan Gibson, 12-day-old child of Sidney Herbert Homewood, the Tappan (N. Y.) ridingmaster jailed last month for seducing Socialite Charlotte Ariel Gibson (TIME, Dec. 19) ; of bleeding at the navel; in Tappan...
...plunger changes the air pressure in the container. The changing pressure agitates a pen which writes a zigzag line on a moving sheet of paper. An aluminum tripod holds the device so that the exposed end of the plunger rests gently yet firmly near the patient's navel. For there is where she contracts and bulges most. There is no discomfort. Says Dr. Dodek: "The entire apparatus with its tripod support rests on the evenly undulating movements of the abdomen in the intervals between contractions similar to the way in which a moored skiff rests upon the ripples...
...Nancy Cunard, Torch-Singer Yvonne George, Cinemactress Lois Moran (when she was a child ballerina in the Paris opera). Also exhibited were views of assorted sections of his favorite model, Miss Lee Miller, known as "Lee-Girl" to her intimates, widely celebrated as the possessor of the most beautiful navel in Paris. She too is a photographer, has taken many pictures...
...with the Gandhi [radio] speech that we tried to picture what a Western nation's leader would look like and how he would act if he were chosen according to Eastern standards. The result is the picture here shown-Mr. Hoover seated at a spinning wheel, contemplating his navel. There is no intention to ridicule anybody with this picture. It is merely meant to illustrate the great gulf that is fixed between Eastern and Western ideas...