Word: scantiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bastille Day vacation swelled the crowds that plowed up the fine beach, cheered as postwar merveilleuses displayed the world's scantiest bathing suits and vied in U.S.-style beauty contests. At the Bar du Soleil, Englishmen paid 200 francs for a thimbleful of whiskey. At the Hotel Normandy guests paid 1,200 francs for a room. Restaurants charged 200 francs for a dinner of soup, eggs or fish, one vegetable, one peach...
...then-some includes the shapeliest girls, the scantiest clothes available. These, together with plenty of steam-room antics and off-color dialogue, turn Hopwood's tale of a professor (Buddy Ebsen) who is completely unnerved at the sight of exposed female flesh into the likes of a burlesque show. Good Night Ladies, as Chicago Tribune Critic Cecil Smith put it, satisfied "every taste except good taste...