Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begin." Authoress Faith Baldwin, introduced by Author Achmed Abdullah, writes of "Love and Romance," estimates that Colyumist Dorothy Dix is the best public advisor on such tender themes. Contributor Edward L. Bernays, writing the blurb for "Women" innocently observes: "Forty-nine percent of the population are of the feminine sex. And yet women still seem to be the perennial novelty that they have always been...
...readers several novels in the dress of one is good measure, tramped down and running over. Such generosity Authoress Seymour here accords her readers. By the simple expedient of making her central character sympathetic and true she keeps the story from splitting wide apart. Her education in life (particularly sex) constitutes the story, in lots of episodes...
...sex motif makes its appearance at the beginning of Sally Dunn's life. She is an illegitimate child born into a plain English family who cannot understand how such things can rightly be. Innocent as the day herself, Sally is farmed out as a maid-of-all-work in the Yorke family. Sally loves her employers, thinks them perfection until gossip below stairs and her own observations make it clear that they have troubles undreamed of by her. Mrs. Yorke lets her husband love her only for babies' sake; Mr. Yorke wants to love...
...evolve fictive compensations for pseudo-desires in excess of our faculties ... by which to be disappointed, inevitably." Among men's fictive compensations Author Wescott considers most notorious Literature,whose contemporaneous practitioners contend to be social mouthpieces, rather than rulers and revealers as of old; old-fashioned ideas about sex ("Childlessness is a virtue now, though probably the humblest"); the idealist religion of "God-beside-the-point...
Writer White is the second prominent staffman of The New Yorker to show drawing ability after success in writing. Three years ago he collaborated with his staffmate James Thurber in writing a book called Is Sex Necessary? Writer White noticed that Writer Thurber had 1 habit of nervously scribbling little figures and throwing them in the wastepaper basket. Writer White fished them out, found them amusing enough to save. Publishers Harper & Bros, also found Writer Thurber's hastily scrawled figures amusing, used them to illustrate Is Sex Necessary? Since then the sketchy, slightly neurotic illustrations of Writer Thurber have...