Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harbor. "A sucker age," Novelist Powell calls it, "an age for any propaganda, any cause, any lie, any gadget." Gold-digging Amanda and Julian have but a single aim - to keep themselves on top. They are interested in making money, but more in the power that money gives. Even sex, when it is not a means to an end, is hardly more than a canapé. Good works - Bundles for Brit ain, aid to Finland, homes for children refugees - take a lot of time because the reward of generosity is favorable publicity. Thus life for Julian and Amanda...
...evidence at hand, he gives it another kicking around. The author of the ribald 1601-itself a symptom of inhibition-needed neither his staid friend William Dean Howells nor his gentle wife Olivia to wash out his mouth with soap. Mark Twain, says DeVoto, "was almost lustfully hypersensitive to sex in print; he was, in fact, as a writer, rather more prudish than Howells." This fact is subtly related to his limitations as a writer. He had a simple genius for making all males, of any age, come to life, even in a few lines. Middle-aged women, like...
There is no cure for angina pectoris (heart attack), which afflicts hundreds of thousands in the U.S.. but its agonizing pains have been relieved in a number of cases by injections of testosterone propionate, a male sex hormone. So reported Dr. Leslie Hamm of Boston in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology, in a review of his own work and that of Dr. Maurice Aaron Lesser...
...recently graduated from the University of Texas with an all-A rating and a PBK key to boot. Six feet two and 200 pounds make Ettlinger no anemic Lord Fauntleroy, but although he is interested in organic chemistry he has yet found no attractions in the opposite sex...
...careful) among a convergence of busses. In his extreme youth Teddy enjoyed sticking out his tongue at caged lions. But he shunned even squirrels (you never know what germs they may carry), to say nothing of playmates. His mother began to worry about Teddy and sex long before he discovered its existence...