Word: coition
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Worse yet, jazz is ultimately the musical (sic!) expression of coition. And while coition and religion in times past have not been totally unrelated, this relationship has found opponents (Hosea, et al.) and is still in some disfavor with the church...
...grass-widows and widowers of Gotham must have felt slighted because you failed to mention "Wednesday matinee" in New York when the "Undefended Divorce Calendar" is called in our Supreme Court. Although adultery is the sole ground of divorce in the Empire State, our Courts have held that actual coition need not be proved, but that proof of the inclination and the opportunity is sufficient. Consequently the large audience which always attends the "matinee" has its curiosity sated by a continuous reiteration of the drama "The Time the Place and the Girl...
...Thesis. Bertrand Russell displays present-day laws and ideas about sex as an extraordinary potpourri* obtained from savages, ascetics, Roman lawyers, Manichaean heretics, Teuton romanticists. All of them, says he, are based upon the idea of indissoluble connection between coition and conception, which is practically no longer true. Showing the disastrous effects of this makeshift state of affairs, he then considers various other possibilities, from the standpoint of the state, the child, the adult. His own proposal goes a step further than companionate marriage-as the family is of importance chiefly to the child, a man and woman should...
...President Taft took a middle position on the question of parties and principles, declaring that at present, parties, though imperfect, afford the only practical means of interpreting the opinion of the voters. The main theme of his address, however, concerned the present coition of the courts. He declared that "in many places the administration of civil justice is a disgrace to this country. In the western states, particularly, the people have harmed the courts to an extent that is almost irremediable. The same change that has characterized the wanton election of judges has extended to other offices...