Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University, no schoolboy by a long shot, was convinced last week that it is not so much the flowers that bloom in the spring as what birds eat that affects their mating cycle. Other investigators had advanced the theory that increased exposure to sunlight in the spring is the sex stimulus. This theory they checked experimentally by inducing sex gland activity with artificial illumination. It looked as if the light stimulated the front lobe of the pituitary ("master gland"), which in turn roused the gonads...
...laboratory Dr. Perry induced unseasonable sex activity by shining ordinary 25-watt lamps on sparrows much less than a year old. The beaks of the males turned dark and their testes developed spermatozoa; the ovaries of the females were swollen, contained numerous eggs. The scientist evoked even more pronounced gland changes with ultraviolet light...
...estate. Before the will had been probated, Eugenia Wilson Wackenmuth of East Port Chester, Conn., and J. Gilbert Wilson filed a claim that the person named Marshall W. Hoyt was really their aunt, and therefore obviously not a husband and unable to leave a widow-beneficiary. Asked about the sex of the corpse, Undertaker Frederick A. Gibbs shook his head, mumbled about professional ethics. Documents were produced which showed that the Wilsons' "aunt" had applied for and obtained a marriage license in 1922, naming as the bride.a Miss Grace Louise Himebaugh. Whether Hoyt subsequently changed his mind, sex...
...audiences were familiar only with romantic ballet and the rose-garlanded capers of "interpretive dancers." Shocked by this backwardness of the U. S. dance, a group of younger U. S. dancers decided that something ought to be done to bring it up to date. To these reformer-minded dancers, sex appeal, pretty costumes, toe technique were not enough. They wanted to express and depict serious things, to comment on present-day problems...
...Recession-prompted hunt for old stories available for revival, The Shopworn Angel illustrates one consequence: in the effort to remain consistent, the Hays organization has failed to censor material which it passed in 1929, although the characters involved scarcely meet the moral requirements of 1938's purified cinema sex life. Best sequence: Pettigrew calling on Daisy at the stage door to prove to his cynical messmates that he really knows...