Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buffalo, N. Y., last month occurred a sordid sex murder involving two red women. Into the home of Henri Marchand, artist for the Buffalo Natural History Museum, had walked Nancy Bowen, 66-year-old Cayuga Indian from the nearby Cattaraugus Reservation. She had confronted Mrs. Marchand, small, slight, with a question: "Are you a witch?" Jestingly Mrs. Marchand replied: "Yes." Thereupon Nancy Bowen beat her down with a 10? hammer, stuffed chloroform-soaked paper down her throat, left her dead...
Often have ardent research workers rankled under the interference of trustees, directors, presidents who meddled with their work. It has been necessary for them to smother their rage, remain silent, when they have been restrained from teaching evolution, practicing vivisection, inquiring into sex tendencies...
...other publication of an indecent character ... is hereby declared to be nonmailable matter and shall not be conveyed in the mails. . . ." In April, 1929, Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett was convicted in a Brooklyn Federal court under this statute. She had written and sent through the mails a pamphlet, The Sex Side of Life. Last month her conviction was reversed in the Appellate Division, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In this book she gives the history of her case, reprints the offending pamphlet, with its diagrams, in full. Said the Court of Appeals: the pamphlet is "an accurate exposition...
...Lady Chatterley's Lover, with long, minutely anatomical discussions of sex between Lady Chatterley and her husband's game keeper, bootlegs for from $15 to $30 in the U. S. where surreptitious editions have been made. In 1928 Publisher Horace Liveright in New York, without official interference, put out a two-volume subscription edition of Story Tetter's Holiday for $20. My Life and Loves, with no unexpurgated U. S. edition, bootlegs for $25 and up. All other books named have appeared in regular U. S. editions, purchasable at reputable booksellers. *Author David Herbert Lawrence died last...
Authors Ernst & Lorentz list shots and captions liable to be cut: portrayal of crime or suicide; display of dangerous weapons; cruelty, mean or mischievous; capital punishment; gambling; profanity, lip or title; drinking; narcotics; sex, suggestiveness or overpassionate love making; nudity and indecent exposure; vulgar dancing; improper reference to women...