Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DALLAS, Tex.--The promising baseball career of Monty Stratton, 25-year-old pitcher for the Chicago White Sex, was ended late today when physicians amputated his right leg at the knee...
...Tanning," concluded the scientists, formulating in Science last week a convincing explanation of the action of sunlight on the skin, "may be a 'photographic-like process' of 'exposure' and 'development,' with the sex hormone acting to 'develop' color-lacking material laid down in the skin by exposure [to the sun]. . . . This 'developing' action may be exerted as late as five months after exposure...
...Tropic of Cancer he deals primarily with matters which, while not exactly left out of modern books, are usually slurred over, and in his pages four-letter words are as common as the things they stand for. Narrator of the story is a penniless, sex-obsessed writer living in Paris, who encounters an extraordinary crew of neurotics, prostitutes, perverts, poets and painters, with many of whom he has sexual relations, meanwhile borrowing money, cadging drinks and exploding into hysterical laughter at the misfortunes of his friends. Miller's prose, with its queer combination of unrestrained rhetoric and dry Yankee...
...Irishman, born in Burma and raised on the border of Tibet, now working as clerk at the Ionian Bank in Corfu. Insofar as it has a story, The Black Book tells of a group of people living in a stuffy English hotel -all neurotic, frustrated, savage and obsessed with sex. The narrator brings home an 18-year-old tuberculous prostitute, Gracie, speculates about his neighbors, suffers a baffled, angry grief at Gracie's death...
When the class is all one sex...