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...general's chief targets were women refugees in his beleagured capital city of Tsinan who were "choosing marriage as their way out." Men with families, he noted, had little fighting spirit. Worst of all, proclaimed the general, "The Reds have been sending girl spies over, utilizing carnal looks to lure military and government officials into matrimony, in order to obtain military information and endanger lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Offensive | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...undertaker's" advertisement portraying the "beautiful body" of a nude girl is carnal and shameless. It is manifestly repugnant to the general public and offensive to the funeral service industry. . . . J. WILFRED CORR Executive Secretary California Funeral Directors Association Pasadena, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...sexual act was the highest bodily pleasure, should immediately ask whether you ate chocolates at the same time. On receiving the answer no, he might regard absence of chocolates as the chief characteristic of sexuality. In vain would you tell him that the reason why lovers in their carnal raptures don't bother about chocolates is that they have something better to think of. The boy knows chocolate: he does not know the positive thing that excludes it. We are in the same position. We know the sexual life; we do not know, except in glimpses, the other thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Don v. Devil | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...which, to the fertile minds of the Brahmins of the time, covered the field fairly well. With enthusiasm that would be suspected in other endeavors, Bostonians of excellent name and irreproachable connections condoned, even abetted book-burning, Carrie-Nation antics, even the use of Harvard undergraduates to test the carnal tendencies of certain girlies of hesitant virtue in the Back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Carl B. Williams, a missionary in the Church of the Nazarene, was not guilty of a crime in "gaining carnal knowledge of" his Indian girl assistant on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, in Arizona. The Court unanimously decided that an 1889 federal law which makes such action a crime only in the case of a girl under 16 took precedence over an Arizona law which protects girls under 18. The Indian girl was between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Ax | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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