Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blue eyes and the ringlets which hung, symbols of virginity, on their thin shoulders. On the stage, able young Actress Helen Hayes set a high standard of vocal expression in reading the lines. Mary Pickford has not performed vocally, for many a year. Her script was hurt when its sex morality was .cut over for film use and a windy, incredible courtroom scene introduced'. Her cast is bad and her director no genius'. But somehow, as- though to prove to the world which has called her "America's Sweetheart" that her talent does not share the tawdriness...
...civilization. . . ." The contributions were not startling. Rabindranath Tagore deplored the constitutional western tendency to material thinking. India's Laurence Frederic Rushbrook Williams, educator, stressed Empire thinking. Of most interest to U. S. citizens was the suggestion that U. S. cinemas be prohibited or strictly censored because of their sex motifs. Also suggested: prohibiting or curtailing sale of sensational U. S. newspapers and magazines in Can ada, abolition of-U. S.-made comic strips, substitution of Canadian. † The Canadian National Council of Education is only ten years old. It was born in the Rotary Club of Winnipeg. Its father...
...Jammu and Kashmir dealt drastically with the situation by increasing the penalty for abducting Kashmiri women from three to seven years imprisonment, plus the lash. Anxious to cooperate with His Highness, the Government of British India agreed to make the offense of abducting women or children of either sex from Jammu and Kashmir extraditable. In the wicked Indian cities of Calcutta and Madras what might be called the bootleg price of abducted Kashmiri trebled and quadrupled last week...
...Identical twins are invariably of the same sex. Fraternal twins, born of separate ova, may differ in sex. Siamese twins are identical twins, but not severed in embryo...
Frances ("Peaches") Browning, nee Heenan, juvenile half of a disgusting age-and-youth sex case, last week finished a lucrative vaudeville tour and prepared for an all-summer European holiday. Her companion: Mother Heenan...