Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Challenge of Youth is a new and nauseating development of the ordeal by sex-problem. A professor's daughter in a small New England college town joins her friends in a league to combat the moral vigilance of their elders. Shortly thereafter her father inadvertently opens a door leading out of the front parlor and discovers her in the processes of sin. By the end of the play he feels he understands her better, has made a less romantic, more reasonable adjustment to life...
STRICTLY DISHONORABLE-Delicious sex fairy tale...
When the Royal babe is born the sex will be officially verified and announced by onetime cotton spinner John Robert Clynes, now Home Secretary in the Labor Government, whose friends were already beginning last week to twit...
...last week's pageant he returned to his own sex. As barber he vigorously plied lather brush and wooden razor on the faces of Equator neophytes before toppling them into the canvas tank erected on the Kenilworth Castle's deck. In the midst of the ruckus little Wendy Tuke, eight-weeks-old baby, was brought to the barber's chair. Nervous passengers crowded forward, wondering whether baby Tuke was to be shaved and ducked with the others. Barber Wales contented himself with sprinkling a little soapy water on Baby Tuke's puckered face, conferring...
...first suggestion he offers "Is Sex Necessary?" a delightful parody on the steadily accumulating mass of literature, smacking strongly of Freud and driving the debonair dandy and the dilettantish debutante into a maze of inhibitions and high-priced psychiatrists. This clever satire, minus the usual steel edge, will, the Vagabond is convinced, be an excellent defense mechanism against the strongest pent-up fixation. It is funny...