Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the first three years I began to feel that, in order to have any sex appeal, I should manage to get at least one divorce. The fact that I had overlooked this in my twenties perhaps accounted for the fact that only my husband had never spoken to me about passionate love...
Marks realizes that school and sex are not the only factors in a rounded education and gives us snapshots of all the casual acquaintances who have made a definite impression on the characters of most young people. There is a glimpse of church life, a more detailed portrait of the pet dog, a glance at high school athletics and a prolonged picture of family relationships. Whatever message the author may wish to present, it is largely contained in this latter description...
...grows older he becomes acquainted with the problems of puberty and sex, but passes through this period with little difficulty because of his father's frank advice. The puppy-love stage is treated with all the seriousness it deserves and when Andrew falls from grace at the rather tender age of 16 he is orientated by his father and helped rather than hurt. This close understanding of father and son is present throughout the volume in almost too perfect harmony, but Marks appears to be looking back and seeing how the situation should have been...
...Riley's conception of humor is broad and earthy; he's not above generous exploitation of popular susceptibility to the obvious double entendre. He realizes that, like money, sex may not be everything, but it's hard to got along without. His take is simple and though unevenly paced it has its moments. A quiet, solid little tourists home is thrown into an uproar of delicious confusion when the unexpected guest sweeps in the alluring form of Carole Arden, the luscious temptress of the silver screen. Miss Arden seems to be on a tour of personal appearances which has been...
...beginning Dr. Ellis poked around London and Paris asking impertinent questions of men & women. Soon he discovered that most people like to talk about their sex life. Therefore he holed himself up with a great collection of books on the manners and customs of primitive and ancient peoples and let the concupiscent, the celibate and the sexually miserable beat a path to his study and tell him all. His marriage in 1891 to bubbling Edith M. O. Lees, who died in 1916, made his sage-in-the-study life practicable. Their only marriage vow was not to deceive one another...