Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most fashionable women of the time, Irene Castle (when she bobbed her hair, 1,000,000 American women made haste to hang out the shingles of the New Sex), appeared in the Hearst-produced, flag-waving war serial Patria. Another dancer, who took her talents directly into camps, was highbrowed Ruth St. Denis. One of her numbers, called Spirit of Democracy, might serve as a touching, rousing symbol of the whole of entertainment in World War I. It worked up through a lather of militant gestures (bayoneting, grenade-lobbing, etc.) to a disconcerting climax in which a girl in black...
...only value of this picture and "China Girl" is to remind the American public that China is also in the war. As far as tributes go, however, these are more in the way of insults. Such pictures should be taken as action stuff, lots of bang-bang, heroics, sex-interest, and a few emotion-arousing shots of pathetic Chinese babies. Even so, Alan Ladd was more at home in "Glass Key" and "Lucky Jordan...
...full swing, and as usual owl-eyed, benign Boss Ed Crump, 67, was the prime cudgel-wielder. This time he was after the cats. Memphis songbirds were in peril, said the boss, so cats must go. A "nice house cat" was all right, but tramps of either sex were out. Promptly cattraps began to appear in Memphis back yards, particularly those of county and city employes. County Commissioner Francis Andrews trapped three right...
...press the story of the big red house on R Street seemed to have a dash of everything: intrigue, glamor, mystery, money, politics, sex, big names, fabulous dinings & winings, the irresistible atmosphere of important people doing important things out of school...
Though 3.000 of the 8,000 U.S. women doctors could probably qualify for service, most of them are content to work at home. What gets their dander up is to see an outstanding woman specialist hampered on account of her sex. Such a physician is Dr. Alice McNeal, anesthetist of Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago. The operating team to which she belongs went to General Hospital Unit 13 at Camp Robinson, Little Rock, Ark. Forty Chicago doctors went, but Dr. McNeal was left behind...