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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look like another Bruno Richard Hauptmann and the police had begun to bog down before three more unsolved murders, up popped the discovery of Robert Irwin. A twice-committed mental hospital patient, 29-year-old Sculptor Irwin had once roomed with the Gedeons and was so abnormal about sex that he had tried to have himself emasculated. Learning that he had come to New York, hired a room for a single day near the Gedeon apartment and disappeared the night of the murders, the police settled on him as the murderer and began a nation-wide search. Thus this perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Murder for Easter | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Each contestant will receive some sort of prize, and each will be marked and checked by a fair-sex member of a Broadway chorus. A cocktail party will follow the broadcast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard to Be Represented In Chin Golf Championship | 4/2/1937 | See Source »

When the Supreme Court is inconsiderate enough to hand down some pretty important decisions on the same day as an unusually "sex-mad" crime occurs, the first page is somewhat crowded. Page three does pretty well, though, aside from one extremely small, nondescript single column cut labelled "Model in Street Clothes...

Author: By Arabi Pasha, | Title: Off Key | 3/31/1937 | See Source »

...having to take care of his uniform and replace it at his own expense, Tommy Atkins will at all times be "completely equipped free" by His Majesty's Government, not only with service uniforms but with a "walking out uniform" of fetching blue, designed explicitly to increase his sex appeal. All this the War Secretary, markedly handsome and virile husband of famed and markedly feminine Lady Diana Manners, described in his final burst of oratory last week as "a new Charter of Freedom for the British soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...beasts help make it a magnificent feat of showmanship, but they are not what Beatty worries about. Lions hate tigers and tigers hate lions, and in this atmosphere of hate the unexpected is always on the verge of happening. Beatty started mixing lions and tigers of both sexes in 1926 after a wise old "cat man" told him the old one-species, one-sex acts would not much longer satisfy a surfeited public. In 1928 his act contained 32 assorted cats, an unprecedented number. When he moved up to Ringlings' main how two years later he added eight more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Cat Man | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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