Word: oestrus
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...introduced his cast of players. Two of them, both women, one moody and loving, one stable but loveless, became the film's epicenters, while scenes of a nude in dance interrupted the story at intervals. As the film progressed, the nude became more and more alive, ending in near oestrus. Then the suburban blur came again, at night this time, and the town moved further and further away...
...Oestrus is so vulgar that we are reluctant to acknowledge its undeniable cleverness...
...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest," the &OEstrus has also appeared in new attire. It is now a good-looking paper of nine columns; a size which prevents the publication of those prize essays and orations which appear to be so plentiful at the University of California. We notice, too, a more important change in the tone of the items...
...unfortunate Californian, named Dorn, seems to furnish great amusement to the OEstrus, which gets off three poor jokes on him in the last number. The least vulgar and most brilliant (?) of these is: "Dorn says he has just found out that he is a D. P., - Dorn Phule...
...OEstrus comes out strongly in favor of women's rights, and its "editorial affairs" are to be managed, in part, by young ladies of the University of California. After co-education comes co-editing. The gentler sex is, according to the OEstrus, "an acknowledged superior element in the college." The OEstrus is apparently conscious of its own defects, as the following observation shows : "This acquisition will tend to add dignity and tone to the paper, and prevent it from possibly falling into that low strain which we have seen in some issues of our contemporaries...