Word: nudism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance that it might be, police photographed everything in sight, prepared to make meticulous reports to the German Embassy in Washington, moved through the six rooms foot by foot. Books and letters were everywhere-most in German, many on nudism. There were scores of photographs of naked men, many middleaged. Neighbors had noted that no women went to see black-haired, squat Dr. Engelberg; that his servants were men, his numerous visitors were...
...most puzzling answers were three which professed nudism, one which held to the Boy Scout oath and one asserting "anachronism...
...Nudism, as an organized movement, started in Germany in the early 20s, went ahead by serious leaps and dignified bounds until 1933, when the German body put on a brown shirt. From Germany the cult spread to France, England and the U. S., where it was popularly regarded as high-class burlesque. By 1934, however, there were 300,000 serious-minded nudists in the U. S., and the movement gathered momentum until the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego three years ago, where 2,000,000 sightseers at 25? a head peeked over a fence into a nudist corral...
Scientists may dispute the social value of nudism but on the physical value of sun bathing they are of one mind. Contrary to nudists' beliefs, prolonged exposure to sunlight is definitely harmful. Sunburn is a form of skin disease, stretching and often paralyzing the superficial capillaries of the skin, increasing fibrous tissue. In time the skin grows scaly, inelastic, wrinkled, becomes predisposed to cancer. Classic medical example of sun-caused cancer is the case of Australian sheepherders, who work unprotected in strong sunlight, contract more skin cancer than any other group...
...Mena in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. A cluster of frame houses, halls and barns in which all the manual labor is done by faculty and students, the College is detested by many of the local citizenry who got the Arkansas Legislature to investigate "free love" and ''nudism" at Commonwealth, and last winter Rev. Luther D. Summers, a Baptist of Mena, led a crusade to make the College move away, exclaiming: "What can any decent person think of a school that teaches Communism, free love, Negro equality with white, atheism...