Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sheet and pulp (over 600 in toto) mingle on the shelves unembarrassed while Felix looks down with a benign tolerance. "It's no matter if a man buy something," he reasons, "he like to see what it's all about." What does dismay him is the wicked popularity of sex trash. When men are buying that which is portable cover-out, it will likely be current bestsellers Life and Look--new faces since the days in the Teens when Literary Digest and Punch drew the tinkle of coin. Old-faces Crimson, Advocate, and Lampoon remain top attractions, although he confesses...
...bigger feet, eat less but do more heavy drinking, are less prudish, less weepy and less moral, marry earlier, cook better meals but make poorer mothers, are much less satisfied "with their lot as women." Independently, Dr. Marynia F. Farnham, Manhattan psychiatrist and coauthor of Modern Woman: The Lost Sex, proclaimed that U.S. women are the unhappiest in the world...
...from Havana got what it deserved: decent burial on an inside page, below the fold. In the tabloids, and such dailies as are tabloids under the skin, the life, loves and death of one John Lester Mee got top billing as the season's spiciest mixture of sin, sex, masochism and mon-keyshine justice. It was the type of news the U.S. press tells only too well, and loves to tell...
...Seeing so many men at one time is a blessing," smiles Miss Zelda Cushner, Vassar '48, looking up from her table at Widener. Zelda has inyaded the traditionally all-male library reading room under the protective wing of official sanction--a rare commodity among the fair sex--and is digging in for two months of solid work...
Asked "what physical attributes do you first notice about a man?" the members of the passive sex indicated face, eyes height, smile, and clean-cutness as major assets in making the initial impression. As an infective to complete grooming, however, votes were recorded for eyebrows, hands, the jaw, and the back of the neck...