Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorite college story of tabloid editors is the one called "Sex Orgies." This week two women journalists expanded the story into a book, * called it a report on "the sex mores of our younger generation." Dorothy Dunbar Bromley is a columnist for Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, Florence Haxton Britten a former staff member of the New Republic and Hearst's International. To find out what U. S. youth thinks and does about Sex, these two married women interviewed and probed with questionnaires 1,364 men & women students in 46 colleges and universities. They avoided...
...half of the men and one-quarter of the women juniors and seniors in U. S. colleges have had premarital sex intercourse. Of these two out of three men and one out of three women began in high school...
Second difficulty concerned negotiations with Hollywood's sex personality,' Mae West. Although she expressed a great desire to look the University over, her manager quoted a "special price" for her appearance at the Smoker, three thousand dollars...
...even in male animals; it induced parental behavior in birds and rats; it increased the basal metabolism (heat production) ; it seemed to affect carbohydrate metabolism through the adrenal glands; it caused growth of liver and intestines; it increased the blood's sugar content; and it inhibited the sex glands, causing pigeons' ovaries to stop producing ova and to reabsorb those already formed, and the testes of males to shrink. This last effect, in Dr. Riddle's opinion, was exerted indirectly-by blocking release of the pituitary substance which normally stimulates sex activity. It seemed to show that...
Fortunately, "The Women," presented by Max Gordon at the Colonial, is not the cross-section of American womanhood that many claim it to be. It is good, not particularly clean, comedy. Embracing a cast of forty women and presenting the thesis that the fair sex has just one thing on its mind, the play tries more to amuse than convince...