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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play if it weren't so generally past helping. It is partly a mess because it hasn't a shred of self-respect. It trifles shamelessly with its material, trying to be dramatic one moment and comic the next. Worse still, it purveys some of its sex for leers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays In Manhattan, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Foolish Virgins, like Double Wedding in Beverly Hills, did demonstrate the kind of craftsmanship and the horrified absorption in sex which have always been Ernst's claims to notoriety. Only Salvador Dali (whom orthodox surrealists consider too slick and too successful) can rival Ernst at his most unpleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Importance of Being Ernst | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...folks," he usually begins, "we've got a couple of special offers for you this evening that we know you don't want to miss. I have in my hand here a copy of the latest issue of 'Sex Thrills' magazine, filled with the spiciest photos an stories you've ever seen. Modesty forbids my reading you a selection from the true story I Was a Bar Maid in Phoenix City, Alabama,' but for just fifty cents, one half a dollar, you can read not only this revealing tale of a young girl's downfall, but a large number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 3/29/1947 | See Source »

...followed by an expansive smile, and suddenly the volume swells miraculously. Glee Club members recall a rehearsal of "Casey Jones," in which the coaching was so graphic that a Radcliffe girl who had wandered in decided to leave. Since then rehearsals have been closed to the fairer sex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 3/28/1947 | See Source »

...belongs outside the most publicized U.S. Indian movement-the Vedanta-which includes Huxley, Isherwood, et al. He is also scorned by them. Yogananda, born plain Mukunda Lai Ghosh 46 years ago, is the son of the vice president of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. Father Ghosh scorned money, food and sex, spent his free hours meditating, with his legs crossed. Both father & mother Ghosh were devout practitioners of the basic tenet of yoga: absolute discipline of the body and senses through concentration on the idea of union with God. "Your father and myself," said Mrs. Ghosh, "live together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Here Comes the Yogiman | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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