Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imposed upon and that no matter how flatly its educational dish is cooked up by the authorities, it will spice it with its own luxurious and adventurous nature. Physically, aesthetically, mentally, the Bryn Mawr and Wellesley students rise above the prosaic materialism of their rival sex and epitomize the resourcefulness and progress of femininity...
...well as Hedda's friends, sped back and forth, uptown and downtown, to compare and contrast the performances of Actresses Eva Le Galliénne and Blanche Yurka. It was unfortunate and misleading, for the Misses Le Galliénne and Yurka have scarcely anything except their sex and profession in common. But between them they allowed the coincidence to happen and, with the public still craving Ibscenities as an aftermath of last year's Ibscentennial, comparisons and contrasts were inevitable. For example: Eva Le Galliénne's figure is lissom; it permits her to play...
...particularly disappainting to have the Reverend Doctor Streeter congratulating himself on having discovered the sex solution par excellence in the joy of renunciation for its own sake as an admirable example to others. Somehow the logic of renouncing something that is not worth renouncing for one's self so as to impress others with doing the same for the same reason has never pleased this reviewer...
...MAGIC ISLAND-W. B. Seabrook- Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). ". . . in the red light of torches which made the moon turn pale, leaping, screaming, writhing black bodies, blood-maddened, sex-maddened, god-maddened, drunken, whirled and danced their dark saturnalia, heads thrown weirdly back as if their necks were broken, white teeth and eyeballs gleaming, while couples seizing one another from time to time fled from the circle, as if pursued by furies, into the forest to share and slake their ecstasy." Author Seabrook understood the totality of this abandon following as it did upon ceremonial Voodoo rites of purification. He himself...
...great upholder of morality, and pointed to the fast that in England, where there are no laws against the spread of information on birth control, prostitution has decidedly lessened. But indeed, the spread of contraception has led to a newer and truer morality, based on a saner view of sex problems. Many, also, have feared birth control, except in medical necessity, as leading to sterilization. But as a matter of fact, large families can be comfortably raised with the aid of contraception, while frequent progenies without the spacing that birth con trol brings, have often led to sterility or miscarriage...