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Dates: during 1920-1929
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STUDIES OF SAVAGES AND SEX-Ernest Crawley-Button-($4.50). Although this is primarily a scholarly book, it contains points such as the following for man-in-the-street's consideration: "The attaching of a market-value to a woman has tended to raise the standard of female chastity." "There is no doubt that the various forms of love-sexual, parental, paternal, filial, and social-are kindred emotions." "Other things being equal, the savage regards the satisfaction of the sexual instinct exactly as he regards the satisfaction of hunger and thirst." In giving psychological data on chastity, kissing, love, obscenity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Savages Studied | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

More troublesome buttons than most men has Dean Inge. As a Cathedral Dean he wears four frogged buttons on his cuff There are six buttons on his cutaway coat. His waistcoat-apron buttons down the side. His legs must be encased in gaiters which button all the way up, ending well above the knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Troublesome Buttons | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Admiral Cervera, long sought, imminently expected by nervous mamas at U. S. bathing beaches, had been found. The Spanish gunboats coaled and departed to face U. S. Admiral Schley. U. S. citizens looked for Curaçao in their atlases, found it off the coast of Venezuela, a tiny button in the bottom of the Caribbean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Bottom Button | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Last week U. S. householders rethumbed their atlases, relocated the bottom button of the Caribbean. In Willemstad Harbor, Curaçao, a U. S. ship had been captured, Curacao's Dutch Governor had been kidnaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Bottom Button | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...going to talk to you," said he, "on the necessity of being a snob ... a gentleman, belonging to the ruling class. You have got to take the rule away from the bootlegger, the politician and the man who came up from one suspender button. . . . Put on a front. One of the reasons for Harvard's greatness is that in all her 300 years she has put on a big front. Harvard never apologizes, never argues, never listens to criticism, but goes on calmly putting on her front and gets publicity for that very reason. What applies to the corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Praise for Snobbery | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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