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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sumner recalls one instance where sex helped out attendance considerably. "About 15 years ago we had a rather ordinary picture called "The Animal Kingdom" with Leslie Howard as the star. The first day it did just ordinary business, but after that word got out about just one joke in the film and we had hordes of students in for the next two days. The scene that got them was when Howard stepped out on a balcony, took a deep breath, and shouted inside to his house-keepers, "My heavens, James, it's very cold out. You better bring...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Circling the Square | 12/8/1951 | See Source »

Cambridge officials have dropped their plans for court prosecutions of the distributors of allegedly obscene pocket sized reprints which police have removed from local news-stands during the current drive on "sex books," the CRIMSON learned yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Sex Books' Gone; Cambridge Drops Threatened Suits | 12/8/1951 | See Source »

...Conformist," as the other Moravia books, puts a great deal of emphasis on sex. But the Italian has not lost his talent of giving unusual outcomes to actual situations...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Destiny Leaves Man No Innocence | 12/7/1951 | See Source »

...mysteries to man is how a woman ever finds anything in her purse. Usually she doesn't. This isn't a point of pride among the fairer sex, but a lack of something better. Now something better is here, and BIGELOW KENNARD at 384 Boylston Street has it. It is a small kit that keeps lipstick, cologne, and other feminine vanities together and apart from the rest of sacred contents of her bag. The small handsome kit can be carried separately as well. Price...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas: The Crimson Suggests . . . | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...makes him as sensitive as his bastardy. The pinch of his father's dwindling fortune makes him self-reliant, and his jumps through the rusty hoops of experience set up by Novelist Dos Passos make him a bore. Examples: Jay's first impotent foray into sex with a Greenwich Village "free love" addict; Jay seeing a friend die during his "baptism of fire" in World War I; Jay defending a pair of Sacco-Vanzetti-like philosophical anarchists without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 80 Years with Dos Passos | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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