Word: harems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Time and Tide (weekly), declared in an interview: "The 'smart set' is not a tiny fraction of society playing about in Mayfair. Every suburb and provincial city has its smart set now - its gossip of leisured, idle, irresponsible women. . . . They permeate society with the ideals of the harem. . . . Sex is their profession. So they put an enormous value on sex, on sex discussion and 'problems,' on the high importance of sex attraction. . . . They have become a menace...
...Women," railed Isis, "are segregated with as much care as in a Turkish harem and a man who has any female friends is viewed with suspicion...
...peddler of drink at fairs, upon whose sensitive nature, to the point of perversion, have been wreaked the brutal inheritance of an ancient jumble of hot, primitive races Stavro relates the tragedy of his marriage, thwarted by impotence; the kidnaping of his madcap sister Kyra by a Turkish harem procurer; some of his wanderings from the Danube to Damascus, in search of love and friendship They are not stories for the general public, which takes unkindly to abnormality no matter how subtly treated, how violently and pathetically alive its exponents. A few people will read-and never forget...
Henry's Harem. Before a perplexed audience at the Greenwich Village Theatre, an abortive theatrical creature flapped its uncoordinated parts. For two acts it fumbled with Henry's problem- how to marry off three sisters in six months. Everything seems happily managed, when lo! into the third act comes an utterly unheralded complication-and Henry goes to the district attorney's office. It is gradually divulged that Henry, to adorn his sisters with a marital background, had bartered skim milk instead of cream. For no good reason he is released and the entire cast pairs...
...London Times. None knew better than he how busy the "international road," the press, is kept by the pagan deities in question. None knew better how Venus, having maddened or blessed some hot Italian poet, some Indian rajah or swart Turk, makes her swift progress from the harem or a Paris divorce court to U. S. breakfast tables. None knew better how religion might be jostled by Mammon, despatches from an ecumenical council vying for space with the details of a petroleum coup or soap king's testament. Mars, the god who more than any other has the power...