Word: immodestly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming and may quite literally be hit with it. The evening offers a series of memorably wacky pictures: a man contentedly nibbling a dog biscuit; a superb high-kicking chorus line with one girl always kicking the wrong leg; a male ballet dancer suddenly blushing at his own immodest tights...
Paris thought the picture immodest, and Madame herself was embarrassed...
...large Manhattan department store declared that "some of [the Marilyke dresses] are so cute we've put them in the Junior Department." Marilyke crusaders concentrate on evening dresses and bridal gowns; swimming suits are too unforeseeable - the same bathing suit might be acceptable on one girl and immodest on another girl several sizes larger. The big manufacturers, Fa ther Kunkel admits, are the long-range goal. "Going to the retailer," he explained, "is an attempt to create a demand." All Manila buzzed this week over a ban posted in every Roman Catholic girls' school against accepting any student...
...Inauguration Day, into the opaque depths of the Great Depression, there was a minimum of things to laugh about. Still, nothing in those days of disaster seems to have changed the political philosophy or destroyed the self-confidence of Herbert Hoover. Says he, 23 years later: "I am so immodest as to believe that had we been continued in office we would have quickly overcome the depression and approached economic and social problems from the point of view of correcting marginal abuse and not of inflicting a collectivist economy on the nation...
...friend Louis as painfully shy. In Goldman's house he would often lower his head and walk past Goldman's mother and sisters without a word. Goldman attributes this to Finkelstein's piety: to walk with the head held high, Jewish tradition teaches, is bold and immodest...