Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sex, nevertheless, rates a chapter by itself. "Everywhere under the seemingly placid surface of business," observes Mrs. MacGibbon, "there is the undercurrent of sex, upsetting, repelling, attracting individuals whose lives would never have crossed but for the accident of close-range employment. But the day's work must be done, and the money earned to pay dividends as well as to keep beauty on the payrolls...
...male attire, steals the dress of a girl in swimming, goes up to his house. What follows is one of those scenes which Miss Hepburn plays with her best intuition,, a scene in which a woman who has played a man so long that she has abdicated her sex tries to become a woman for the man she loves. Equally well done is a scene in which she rescues Aherne's sultry mistress (Princess Natalie Paley) from a suicide attempt in the surf...
WHEN brother Delta Tau Deltas from the University of Florida visit Sam Byrd in New York they still find him playing Dude Lester in Tobacco Road-now going on about the 900th performance-one of the most cussed sons in all the world-a tough, blasphemous kid full of sex and Georgia Cracker adolescent orneriness. Offstage, Dude is a slender ex-collegian who stocker journalism and wrote a few one act plays before getting on Broadway. Now he has to battle to keep from sounding like the half wittel nasty Dude when he's not being Dude, and that hard...
...women's department. Eight months later, on April 19, 1919, her column appeared as an unsigned weekly feature. Her chatty advice on domestic problems caught on at once. Within three months the column, signed "Nancy Brown," was appearing every day. Widow Leslie tried to play down sex problems, but they soon bulked too large to ignore. A physician, a lawyer and a sociologist were hired as her consultants. Her column became famed for the authoritative manner and homey style in which she discussed life, death, morals, art, literature, music, business, religion, education, love...
...productivity, a distinguished career, were sole criteria, few critics could object to the choice of Havelock Ellis. Now almost 77, he has been actively writing and editing for 50 years, has practised medicine, translated from Spanish and French, written poetry and fiction, taught school, made a special study of sex psychology. Born in Surrey of a seafaring family, he traveled to Chile at the age of 6, was in charge of a government school in New South Wales by the time he was 19. Deciding that he needed a knowledge of biology in order to understand himself and others...