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...Medical Discovery Since the Dawn of History." To U.S. women tortured by tight corsets and breath-killing clothes, she cooed: "That feeling of bearing down...is always permanently cured by its use." The list of complaints which the compound was supposed to cure ran the gamut from dysmenorrhea to nymphomania. Derisively, some citizens suggested that only one claim remained to be made-"A Baby in Every Bottle." As the Pinkham company grew, however, it dropped some of the more extravagant claims and emphasized the value of the compound as a pain killer. Here, as millions of women users apparently still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Everybody's Grandmother | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...handsome widow (Viveca Lindfors) who is addicted to depressing chats with the spirit of her dead husband. Also involved in the impromptu panel discussions are a garrulous painter (Broderick Crawford) and the widow's younger sister (Osa Massen), who is a heavy tippler with leanings toward nymphomania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...case of amnesia, schizophrenia, paranoia or at least galloping dipsomania. In this case Psychiatrist Morris Carnovsky advises Miss Lamarr that her trouble isn't just an ordinary trouble, but a sickness, like alcoholism. Her trouble, as yet unmentionable on the screen in so many syllables, appears to be nymphomania. In order to cure herself, she quits her high-pressure job as an art editor, her high-pressure rake (Mr. Loder) and her fancy wardrobe. Can she find happiness in dirndls, a huge little studio hideout, her neglected talent for painting, and True Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Somewhere between Raymond Chandler's novel and the screen of the neighborhood theatre all mention of pornographia and nymphomania--the specific subjects of the original--has been trapped in the meshes of the Production Code. What is left of the Chandler touch is the dialogue and the general aura of pointless brutality which has distinguished other films of the Cain-Chandler genre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/30/1946 | See Source »

...outbreak began one February. Suddenly everybody started laughing. Grinning millions walked out on their jobs. At Pennsylvania Station a train announcer bawled: "Express leaving for Mayaguana, Mozambique, Ambrizette, Mossamedes, and Sebastian Viscaine Bay." Men left their wives in droves. Narcissism, nymphomania, necking became general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uninhibited Ha-Ha | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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