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...fiction, she draws bold conclusions from his actions, makes no attempt to soften his cruelties on the excuses of religious mania. Yet human beings are more important than idols and the First Methodist is not diminished by stringent treatment. He emerges, a conceivable person, lecherous as well as righteous, prurient as well as pure, jealous of a girl as well as zealous for his God. Author Oemler treats him curtly but with even justice. The serious nature of the book may surprise that portion of the public who associates her in literature only with stories concerning one Slippy McGee...
...Known to prurient occidentals as "Mr. A," the victim of a "frame up" or "badger game" wored on him by English blackmailers in Paris (TIME...
...answers seem to be: "Not much tripe" and "Very well in deed." In chapters on "The Sex Urge," "Frigidity and Incompatibility", and "Matrimony Wreckers'' there is much rehearsal of sex-psychology- prudish parents, prurient children; ignorant girls, boorish men - that will seem, in its sanity, almost old-fashioned to those who are brave enough to buy the book after they learn that the long, frank fourth chapter is on "Homosexuality." There is even the statement: "If man is polygamous, woman is polyandrous," with the usual demonstration that each is nothing of the kind. If that fails to reassure...
...training that is offered by any of the departments not only offers all the advantages of an extra-curricular activity, but in the opportunity to interview prurient men, in the varied type of work involved, and in the contacts with every branch of college activity and life which are made possible, there is an opportunity which is not to be had elsewhere in Cambridge...
...Louis XIV affair of such splendor that a prurient public demanded to know by what right the son of Henry B. Hyde (founder of the Equitable Life) entertained like an emperor. At the next Princeton Commencement festive graduates carried a three-sided transparency inscribed: "The Simple Life; The Strenuous Life; The Equitable Life." Finally Mr. Charles Evans Hughes bounded into prominence by conducting an investigation into the methods of insurance concerns, which bore fruit in much salutory legislation...