Word: genders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brisk autumn morning in Washington last week and the wind was whipping the last leaves of the Presidential trees when Franklin Roosevelt shuffled out on the egg-rolling lawn behind the White House. He promptly became the centre of a large gathering of mixed gender, for it was the annual occasion on which he shares the limelight with its authors, his annual photograph with White House newshawks. The rite performed, the crowd followed him into the oval reception room on the ground floor of the White House. There he sat and made gay quips as if he had nothing...
...teapot, that the problem in reality is non-existent. Let them explain away the incontrovertible evidence that tonight throughout the land women's colleges are having their most important social functions. In the face of this temptation, it cannot be overemphasized that man has a duty to his gender in these tempestuous days. Let him not forget who pays for the corsages when the feminine knee is bent and the roughed lips are popping the question. Let him not forget who pays for the theatre tickets when two langorous eyes are pleading. It is the duty of every Harvard...
Frank King last week left Walt & Phyllis debating whether or not to "take on such a responsibility." But no reader who knew his comic strips expected for an instant that the baby would wind up in an orphanage. Also, since "Anguished Mother" stuck to the neuter gender in referring to "it," all odds pointed to a foster-sister for Skeezix & Corky...
...atmosphere the events of Tobacco Road stretch themselves with lazy brutality. Compressing in time rather than exaggerating in degree the sordid materialism of lazy back-countrymen, it moved Manhattan reviewers to call its characters "livestock," "pigs," "guinea pigs," "weird savages," "the primitive human animal writhing in the throes of gender," "foul and degenerate parcel of folks," "the hangdog and hookworm...
...introducing the audience to Jim Londos. and then finding that he has mistaken an unknown lady in the third row. for the onetime champion wrestler (see p. 22). While one part of the audience blushes and the other part guffaws. Comedian Berle proceeds to imitate a person of uncertain gender, quip about the show girls' fundaments, shout depraved announcements into a loudspeaker. Less mad than Jimmy Durante, less subtle than Willie Howard, Comedian Berle's horrid humor is noisily unique. He seems to get a great deal...