Word: maleness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between England and France by contemning France's role in the London Locarno Conference. Excerpt: "The position of France is as usual that of a bad-tempered vixen of a woman who up to a point has discovered that merely by making herself unpleasant she can get poor male things to do anything she wants...
...Duce's family. Although Signor Mussolini's favorite and eldest child, Edda, has done her duty to the State by giving birth to two future soldiers and one future housewife, she has not toiled unduly in the kitchen and has not hesitated to enter the male province of international politics...
Testosterone is a powerful male sex hormone which is manufactured by male sex glands, was discovered in The Netherlands in 1935, and made synthetically in Switzerland the same year from the fat of sheep's wool. In the hands of competent doctors, testosterone has definitely helped cases of pathological sex inadequacy, by bringing the patient's sexual functioning up to par. But there is no evidence that it retards the natural sex decline and general debility of old age. Last week the experiments of Dr. V. G. Korenchevsky of Britain's Lister Institute proved that testosterone prolongs...
Recently German health statistics made the most amazing disclosure of all: that 75% of the male population at one time or another have had some form of venereal disease. This almost incredible figure, in the light of Das Neue Tage-Buch's, researches, may be a consequence not only of the moral paganism preached in the New Germany but also of lowered resistance on the part of young Germans to venereal infection...
...uneven lives and works of San Francisco's frontier writers. With few exceptions, gold brought them West. Gold brought the sophisticated, cosmopolitan population, the wealth and leisure that make readers, writers and publishers. Because gold was elusive, restlessness and skepticism became a familiar literary tradition. Because male Argonauts outnumbered female twelve to one, traditions of rough-&-ready humor and violence grew apace...