Word: sex
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...single case contains two or more birds. The object of arrangement is to show the variance in color and plumage due to climate, age, sex, or to the freakishness of nature...
...arrangement has been made with the greatest care. For instance, the specimens to show variety in plumage by reason of difference in sex, are so placed that the first pair of birds show a difference only in shade. The difference is greater in the next pair, and so on, until decided discrepancies in color appear...
...Trilbys differ in sex. Nodier's Tri by is the fairy, the elf, yet like the model. Singularly enough both are ruined by their love...
...Chicago, and several weeks in San Francisco. It is nearing the six hundredth night in London. Apart from its beauty as a play, the powerful dramatic situations that it offers and the charming pictorial treatment which is given to it, there is just now much public interest in the "sex against sex" question which the dramatist had made his theme...
Among American women there is a tendency to sacrifice the distinctive nature of their sex. The Woman's Building at the World's Fair, however successful in the character of its exhibits, is in its separateness the expression of the mistaken American idea. American children are the victims of the stern, practical life about. Childhood, which should be the time of light-hearted illusions, ends too early, if it even exists. But on the other hand, one of the best features of American life is the almost universal education of the youth...