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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THIS, as its name suggests, is an intelligent survey of the principles and practice of seduction. Taking up scientifically a phase of amour that is familiar to most people above the fladging stage, Miss Hahn succeeds in outlining the popular methods of persuasion and in appending to them trenchant comments. Her attitude is impersonal and amoral. The result is a neat little book that is exquisitely humorous. No home, we venture to advise, should be without a copy...
...Pittsburgher Hotel, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and his brother Richard Beatty Mellon, dropped a hammer. It fell through a large plate-glass window in the Frick Building next door. Flying glass cut a 23-inch gash, severed a vertebra, in the back of Mary Hahn, 23, cigar vendor. Last week, after the Mellon lawyers had admitted liability, an Allegheny county jury awarded Miss Hahn $102,427 in damages. The Mellons, through counsel, protested the verdict was excessive, appealed for a new trial...
SEDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM, A BEGINNER'S HANDBOOK-Emily Hahn-Brewer & Warren...
Author Emily Hahn gives 19 typical cases of seduction technique; each is cast in dialog form. The titles suggest the types: Feel My Muscle, You're Not the Domestic Type, An Ugly Old Thing Like Me, What Do You Think Your Husband's Doing?, Music Gets Me. Author Hahn calls Seductio ad Absurdum a beginner's handbook, announces a course for advanced students in preparation: The Seducers Veni Mecum...
Author Emily Hahn, 25, is a mining engineer, was the first woman to graduate in engineering from the University of Wisconsin. She has served as a guide in New Mexico, an artist in a Christmas card factory, teacher of geology in Manhattan's Hunter College; has done research work in London for the New York World...