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...suits was barely one-third suit per male resident. If every suit factory had been run at top. speed day and night, they could not have turned out together enough suits for every man in the country to buy one during the year. The production of women's outer garments was barely one-half garment per female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Abundance v. Scarcity | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

...Fertility" and the "Mother Goddess." Both had huge round eyes and grand-piano legs, were otherwise personable. The Lord of Fertility was about 30 in. tall, wore a knee-length fringed skirt, an elegantly curled beard. The Mother Goddess, somewhat shorter than her consort, wore a close-fitting garment like a slip, with an almost modern cape effect on one side. The statues were ascribed to the Sumerian culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

...Strong of Will: When you see a long figure apparently made of India rubber, and possessed of slightly Katherine Hepburnish tendencies loping easily down the corridor, then you know that the great Pooh Bah of Winsor has passed by . . .Hor favorite garment: an undershirt: probable future occupation: mother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...girl: **** is not only the cream in our coffee, she is also the kick in our cocktall. She has acutely up to the minute clothes and a stream-line figure upon which to hang them. Favorite garment: ankle strap: occupation: prom trotter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

First scenes were acted at Murchison Falls, 150 mi. up the Nile from Victoria Nyanza. Miss Booth acted in a skimpy garment made of monkey fur. Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine rejoiced when a cloudburst destroyed the camp, two hippopotamuses trampled the debris, and Director Van Dyke ordered the company to move to the Belgian Congo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trader Horn's Goddess | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

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