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Word: aphrodisiacal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roses, her image multiplied by mirrors. > "The Beach of Gala Salvador" exhibits, against a Dali landscape embellished with exploding giraffes, many a famed surrealist emblem: the erotic white gramophone with a woman's high-heeled foot coming out of the horn; watches flattened out like flabby pancakes; "The Aphrodisiac Vampire," with the head of a tiger and a body studded with pony glasses; "The Ex quisite Corpse," its head and neck a curved umbrella handle, its chest a wooden chest, its thighs made of saucepans, its curved piano legs made of chocolate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As You Enter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...pituitary and through it the sex mechanism. With this hypothesis in mind. Perry irradiated whole-wheat grains with ultraviolet light, fed them to his birds. That did the trick, whereas the sex glands of other birds which received the same (normal) illumination, but did not eat the irradiated, aphrodisiac wheat, remained in the "resting condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light on Sex | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...were thinking again, after reading Kneel to the Rising Sun, his latest collection of short stories. As in all Caldwell books, the phallic content was high-though not so gamy as to attract the attention of the censor-but the best of these 17 stories were more cathartic than aphrodisiac. Some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheap South | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...That wormwood is supposed to act as an aphrodisiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1934 | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...That continued use of an aphrodisiac produces impotence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1934 | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

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