Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brus sels in Belgium, found that colchicine affects animals as well as plants. Certain bitterlings (small fish) acquire bright red tints when ready to breed. Dr. Havas discovered that the change can also be caused by colchicine, though more slowly; and that colchicine speeded up the action of the sex hormones...
...sight, "good" or "bad," within the purely human sphere of endeavor. Some of his enemies-war and fascism-are popular pushovers. Others will leave Propter few takers. A partial list of targets for his dialectic: politics, capitalistic society, organized religion, romantic love, science, socialism, humanitarianism, language, virtue, selfless devotion, sex, art-in brief, all activities on the purely human plane, however disinterested, are productive only of evil...
...CENSOR MARCHES ON-Morris L Ernst & Alexander Lindey-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A sharp, clattering, rather witty account, in the best liberal-lawyer-to-laymen manner, of what U. S. sex censorship amounts to in its several fields. Nothing startlingly new is said on this sore old subject. The authors bring all the more famous court fights, raids, enlightened opinions and funny stories between two covers. The book also outlines just what can, to date, be legally got away with; and gives in full the anthropologically fascinating, immortally funny Production Code for the movies. The volume may be useful...
...Front Page, the Hecht-MacArthur stage hit, from which Lewis Milestone had already made a picture (1931). Hawks remade the picture, changed its title to His Girl Friday. The result is not just another remake, for Director Hawks's weird idea was also to remake the sex of his leading character. Hildy Johnson, ace newshawk, played by tough-talking Lee Tracy on the stage, grim Pat O'Brien in pictures, has been cinemorphosed into Hildegarde Johnson, female reporter...
...novel concerned young love, and was set in a Harvard background. It described the attempt of a student here to achieve normal relations with the female sex. "The amatory relation still remains a matter of personal adjustment and personal wisdom," was Lewis' conclusion...