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Judge Feinberg's ruling established the first U.S. precedent in a curious legal problem. The first reported case of human artificial insemination occurred in England in 1790, when Dr. John Hunter, consulted by a "linen draper in the Strand" suffering from a deformity of the urethra, decided to inject the draper's wife with semen by means of a syringe. The operation produced a normal pregnancy. Since then moralists have viewed the process with increasing alarm, while visionary eugenists have hailed the prospects (e.g., the indefinite perpetuation of great men through preservation of their frozen semen for generation...
...only sculpture he showed in a public exhibition inspired ridicule, even some alarm, in critics and public alike. That figure was the famed Ballet Dancer, Dressed (see cut). He first modeled the homely, arrogant little dancer in the nude, then, with breath-taking disregard for tradition, dressed her in linen waist and muslin skirt. The public was more amazed by the covering of this figure (solemnly exhibited like a doll dressed in real clothes) than it usually is by decent, or even indecent, exposure. Degas never again exhibited his sculpture...
Strip Tease. In Red Bank, N.J., a busload of soldiers heard a female voice ask the driver, "Will you wait a minute, please, while I get my clothes on?", twisted their necks out of joint, saw a laundress lift aboard a load of linen...
Southerners generally resent any Federal infringement on their State-right to solve their own problems: they have also been prone to leave those problems unsolved. Last week an extraordinary meeting took place in Atlanta, Ga. Its purpose: to prod Southerners into airing some of their dirty linen before the Federal Government steps in and washes it for them...
...been thinking . . . what creature you most resemble and 'tis the Rattle Snake : I am sure you have its Attractions, I think you have its Venom, too, and all the world knows you have its Rattle " quot;If I kept a harem," he once mused, "the ladies should all wear linen gowns...