Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreign correspondence of greatest distinction, the Pulitzer committee decided, was that contributed to the New York Times by able Anne O'Hare McCormick. For 15 years a Tzmeswoman in Europe, Mrs. McCormick last year was given the distinction of being the first of her sex to be seated at the Times's official editorial council table...
...London biologist who tried to learn why birds lay more eggs if kept awake after dark reported last week in the current U. S. issue of Nature that noise and jostling as well as light are sex stimulants. If Professor William Rowan's reasoning can be extended to human conduct it may provide a commentary on jamming in glaring, blaring night clubs, amusement parks, subways and country fairs. It may also explain why the filthy pigeons of Manhattan, London and Paris, and the noisy starlings of Washington are highly prolific...
...trapped finches, whose cages he jostled for 7½ minutes daily, and on starlings which he caught with difficulty in London's noisy West End. Commented the professor: "Collecting birds at night in the centre of London was more easily said than done." In all cases the sex organs of those abnormally disturbed birds were larger and more fit for propagation than the sex organs of normal birds. The chain of physiological events which causes such sex stimulation is not altogether clear. In the case of light, it seems "that light falling upon the eye . . . stimulates the pituitary which...
...string of Los Angeles dairy lunches. They have adopted two children. She is a tall woman with aquiline features and wild hair who, like many over-energetic people, walks with a shuffle. She admires Strindberg's plays, feels that men make better actors than women and that her sex has little place in the production end of show business. "Once a woman stops being feminine, people don't like to have her around." Her present deal is the result of an interview with Adolph Zukor in which she presented an idea for making her own pictures for Paramount...
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