Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whom the cousins had hired away from Hearst, found a way out and up. They dumped the News on foreign-language newsstands for buyers who could understand its pictures if not its captions, and peddled it to subway riders who seemed to have a boundless appetite for crime and sex stories...
Rosamond Marshall, best-selling peeper into milady's chamber (Duchess Hotspur), explained why women were outdoing men in writing best-sellers about bedrooms. "Men are too inhibited,'' said she. "They cannot write a good book dealing with sex without getting themselves in it. They are, to put it bluntly, too muscle-bound...
...George J. Bell '48, of the HOC, said last night, "There may be a game yet." He added patronizingly that the men will bat left-handed and run backwards, if they play at all. Radcliffe, anxious to repeat on the diamond their supremacy-of-the-sex demonstration in last year's crew race, said the teams were to meet in the 'Cliffe quad and carry on from there...
...tortoise-shell glasses, greeted them from the stage. He wore his usual huge black Homburg on the head his followers say is shaped "like a flatiron upside down, recalling the glory of the Victory of Samothrace." Beside him were his ministers: one in charge of Folklore and Sex, another with the portfolio of Justice, Sports and Leisure, another of Tobacco and Health. The two most important were the Minister of the Fight Against the Opposition, and the Minister of the General Situation. They were "Lopologists," and their program to save France was "Lopeo-therapy"; it called for the elimination...
There is nothing wrong with the story that wasn't wrong in the first place. The bum (John Garfield) still chances in at the roadside eatery, gets one good eyeful of the sex-starved wife (Lana Turner) of the lardy, trusting proprietor (Cecil Kellaway), who bought her underprivileged soul but not her overendowed body; and decides to settle down to serious work for a change...