Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jack Benny's, because he gave his Negro co-comedian "Rochester" roles not humiliating to the Negro race.) Self-made, sloganeering Henry T. Ewald, president of Detroit's great Campbell-Ewald agency, got 1940"s gold medal for a distinguished career in advertising. For his work with sex hormones and vitamin K (which clots blood, stops hemorrhages), Biochemist Edward A. Doisy of St. Louis University's Medical School won the Willard Gibbs Medal for 1941. The Chicago Symphony Orchestral Association gave $500 to Carl Eppert, winner of its contest for U. S. composers, whose Two Symphonic Impressions...
Young America now gobbles up about 10,000,000 comic books a month-an overseasoned, indigestible, nerve-shattering, eye-ruining diet of non-comic murder, torture, kidnappings, sex-baiting. Traceable to these hyperthyroid thrillers are many a midnight scream in the nursery, many a juvenile nervous tantrum. Some parents ban the lurid comic books; the more thoughtful try to substitute "good" books. Meanwhile the comic books go marching on-with a slight drop due to the loss of the export market...
Offering a little diversion from the regular run of questions of a military nature, the Bulletin wants to know, among other things, what female institution is preferred, what is the most prevalent home state, and what qualities its readers most admire in the opposite sex...
They are Mrs. Catherine Standish, her son Elyot and her daughter Eden. Elyot, as the blurb says, "represents death," Eden "struggles up to life," the mother "wavers between the two." They are presented, in their mutual oppositions, with considerable psychological skill. It all converges, in the long run, on sex for each. Elyot, a scholar, a "raker of dust, a rattler of bones," winds up in bed with an art-gallery Jewess as hard & cold as chromium. Eden, a sultry semi-Marxist, follows an abortion with a hot, sterile series of affairs, finds what she needs in a calm carpenter...
...boys or girls do not adjust themselves emotionally to the opposite sex during adolescence, they probably never will in a normal...