Word: blush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the dancing master, who is rarely a taxpayer or a respectable man, but often a low libertine, first puts his leprous arms about her, the crimson comes to her cheeks, and she shrinks from his embrace. She is soon reassured . . . The blush, God's danger signal, soon disappears, and also too often forever. The innate sense of modesty receives a shock, and one of the God-given barriers is gone. Many pure and noble young girls are, at first, all unconscious of the nature of the pleasuretey derive from the ballroom...
...works are "good spicy melodrama with enough 'body' for a masculine audience." Theodore Wood, Jr. 2G, who has been a consistent leading man when parts are drawn from a hat on "production nights" was more explicit. "It's good rugged stuff--all sorts of words are used without a blush." Wood did not explain whether it was the play or the players that did not "blush...
...many a moon. She is in one of her most charming moods, chatting gaily about people and occurrences at home which are very interesting and amusing. As she talks Vag looks at her closely. Can this be the little girl he used to go to Sunday School with? And blush with at dancing class? Surety this isn't the same little wretch whose--yes, whose bloomers used to droop so sadly years ago? But it is. She has certainly improved. Vag admits, so on the way out he buys her a huge chrysanthemum. Then, into the Charger--crank, crank...
...political funds "from any other such officer, employee or person." Last week while Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey was in Europe, letters over his signature to all WPA workers in Pennsylvania (270,000 of them) solicited campaign funds. Chairman Sheppard of the Senate campaign funds committee said, "At first blush I can't see where this comes under our resolution." Then he blushed again, called a committee meeting to cogitate Senator Guffey's behavior...
...words, as in bathing suits and men's manners toward women, taboos change with the times. Fifty years ago the word leg was not used in polite mixed company. Today, at respectable dinner tables, words are casually uttered that would make Victorians blush, blanch or burst. Last week a college professor made a scientific report on the use of words that are still "socially questionable" in some circles...