Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defined by Mrs. Besant as "the body of truths which form the basis of all religions and which can not be claimed as the exclusive possession of any." It has three Objects: "1) To form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color. 2) To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science. 3) To investigate unexplained laws of nature and the power latent in man." But Theosophists believe in many a dogmatic mystery, among them reincarnation. Mrs. Besant in previous incarnations has been sister and wife to the same...
...pages to develop the intricacies of the plot so it can not possibly be done here, and anyway it would spoil the fun of the thing. Roughly the story deals with a brave young American who unravels the devious threads of a great Boche plan to sterm Paris. The sex interest is supplied by a Spanish vixen and a handsome, undecipherable German girl. The former has sold herself to the Vaterland. Her chief job is to lure innocent American spys into the tolls of the German intelligence office through her unlimited supply of passion...
...then go out and try to reproduce what they see there because they think that is what the modern collegian must do to be up to date. Our vice squad tells me that it is a common practice for students who intend to spend the night in illicit sex adventures first to attend a movie to sharpen their mood. That is why we have more trouble with rooming houses located near theatres than with all others. Many people, in judging the significance of American influence in the Philippines, believe that the movies play a large and undesirable part...
...thought the worst. In a day when beer was plentiful and automobiles a stock joke, her wasp-waisted, full-bosomed, generously rounded figure tantalized the males she met. More than tantalize she would not. Her many offers were more flattering to her figure than honorable to her sex. She was willing to marry Walter, the Jewish bank clerk, but something respectable in him drove him elsewhere. Circumstances took Ray to Manhattan. There she re-encountered Walter, less clerkly, more respectable. They drifted into a sub-rosa apartment, and she became the perfect mistress, he the perfect banker. Legally unhallowed years...
...writing of the critics that Mr. Brown is most entertaining and keen. He speaks of criticism as that "lean-to in literature." Woolcott. Young and Nathan who wrote of the modern sex play as "The Adventures of Phallus in Wonderland" are all considered in the light of their critical idiosyncrasies. This section is one of the high spots in the book...