Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...higher than it was in the general election of 1952. In Allahabad and other Moslem centers, women in purdah not only queued up outside voting booths but docilely permitted special investigators to peek under their veils to make sure that no male ringers were sneaking in. The only serious sex-linked problem, in fact, arose in Lucknow, where some of the city's 4,000 eunuchs threw polling officers into confusion by joining the women's voting queue...
...price: 25?) enjoy a steady circulation of more than 10 million. In the 38 years since the late Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden blazed the trail with True Story, the confession industry has thrived by sticking to the same trite-and-true formula: first-person stories of subjective sex that are more often fiction than fact, and read like supercharged soap operas...
THRILLS!'' trumpets the April cover of Dell's Modern Romances. Wails quarterly Secret Confessions' current cover line: "I COMMITTED ADULTERY!" Inside the slick color covers, the so-called "confession" or "romance" magazines come through with sagas of sex and suffering that make the most lurid tabloid story read like Mother Goose. In the current issue of Standard Magazines' True Life Stories, a teen-ager in 7,000 action-packed words recounts her father's suicide, her poverty-ridden childhood with a lunatic grandmother, rape by a giggling maniac, seduction by her boss...
...once-virile New England family rapidly outliving both their affluence and influence. Like the town of St. Botolphs where they live, they once drew their power from the sea. Time was when Wapshot boys got their baptism of life by sailing round the Horn, their baptism of sex on some Pacific island. Now the shipbuilding yards are silent and old Leander, head of the family, is reduced to ferrying trippers in a worn-out tub of a boat. His world is gone and frequently he has to take refuge in dreams of his lustier youth, but Leander still sails...
...whisky into hot water bottle crossing borders of dry states or countries. Rubber will spoil taste. Never make love with pants on. Never sleep in moonlight. Known by scientists to induce madness . . . Never wear red necktie. Provide light snorts for ladies if entertaining. Effects of harder stuff on frail sex sometimes disastrous. Bathe in cold water every morning. Painful but exhilarating . . . Eat fresh fish for breakfast. Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire...