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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fair sex refused to let their apron strings continue to serve as political shackles. In their loud demand for franchisement they promised to clean up government and close down the saloons...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Teenage Vote: More to be Gained than Lost | 4/23/1954 | See Source »

...required two-thirds vote. By 1920 the necessary three-fourths of the states had ratified the amendment which provides that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Teenage Vote: More to be Gained than Lost | 4/23/1954 | See Source »

When Lamas and Rose Marie are not sneaking around the woods at night, Keel sings songs about Rose Marie, whose sex he has finally got straightened out. With minor acting interludes supplied by Bert Lahr, Marjorie Main, and a pot-bellied Indian chief, the film moves slowly to a rather cynical conclusion. Not only is red-faced, stalwart Howard Keel jilted, but Ann Blyth, who rivals the scenery for talent, rides off with Fernando Lamas to tend his trap lines for two or more years. They are not married...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: Rose Marie | 4/22/1954 | See Source »

...collection along with the only complete compilation of the Woman's Journal, the paper that recorded the hard years of suffrage campaigning. Praised and damned alike, women were alternately described as "the unsolved mystery, the central Sun around whose shining splendors men ever revolves" and "everyone" knows the fairer sex as physically and mentally delicate...

Author: By Joanna M. Shaw, | Title: Radcliffe Archives Contains Largest Collection on Women | 4/17/1954 | See Source »

From this point on, it is fairly clear that Saadia is not about sex, but then, it is not about much of anything else, either. There is a witch (Wanda Rotha) who changes into an owl and a Holy Man (Cyril Cusack) who declares that Saadia "has a soul capable of the most extraordinary action." In fact, she turns out to be a sort of North African Calamity Jane, who rides off into the badlands, carves up a bandit chief, steals back some serum he has stolen, and so saves the country from a bubonic plague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harem-Scare'em | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

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