Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sex of Their Majesties' fourth child was of national importance because the previous three have been girls (one has died). It was also of personal importance to two charming young people, Crown Prince Chichibu, the Emperor's eldest brother, and Crown Princess Setsuko. Although married for more than two years, they have been obliged by rigid etiquet to have no children, lest they should have a son discourteously ahead of the Emperor. Thus with the greatest national and most exquisitely personal regret it was learned that the babe born last week is another girl. She was at once...
Intellect will be the chief qualification for admission to the Institute, the search for knowledge its primary purpose. In the choice both of students, who are all to be post-graduates, and of faculty, no account will be taken of race, religion, or sex. If first-rate professors a cannot be found immediately in some departments, the subjects will be omitted for the present. Gifted research men will be relieved of all teaching and allowed to concentrate on work in the laboratory or library...
With his boy's pen Master Bruno dashed off a short story, "The Vessel of the Dead." Hair raising, it resembles (except for lack of sex motive) Il Duce's own lurid serial The Cardinal's Mistress,* penned while he was helping to edit a Socialist sheet...
...steady advances toward her daughter. When Jenny's father died she took a job as governess, managed to see her lover occasionally. Since both disapproved of marriage they planned to live together secretly; but, strong on fancies, they were short on facts. "We were still very ignorant of sex, and only knew in a vague way through the reading of poetry how the human sexual act was performed." Nature took its course, however, and when Jenny found she was pregnant they decided to get married. David was still at Oxford when the first baby was born...
...title of "The Owl In The Attic And Other Perplexities". The first part of this opus has to do with the domestic relations of big, strong Mr. Monroe and little Mrs. Monroe. In spite of Mr. Monroe's great powers as a protector and defender of the weaker sex the conclusion is that real strength lies in unity. He repulses burglars, bats, and temptations, and his wife is duly appreciative not only of the abilities of her husband but also of her own place in the scheme of things...