Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word that shocked Critic Stevens was a Latin-derived synonym for stage-hackneyed Sex-a synonym seldom heard outside biology. TIME approved the word's scientific quality and doubts that the most prurient-minded of Victorian butlers would have suspected what was meant...
...from time to time, since the publication in 1913 of his book, Marriage and Divorce. Marriage, he contended, must be regarded as a human institution, a social form to be used so long as it is useful, and to be abolished when abolition is wise. Essentially marriage is a sex matter, but the test of a true marriage is "spiritualization of the physical instinct of sex attraction." He approved of divorce whenever affection has dwindled...
...romantic setting (the mythical Kingdom of Kuremme). The spirit and most of the best lines are inspired by the "legit" play, The Command to Love. A little wittier than most dramas of a prince wavering between a throne and an actress, Dream of Love leans heavily on the sex appeal of Actress Crawford, called "Venus of Hollywood." After each new film Miss Crawford receives ardent letters from thousands of high-school and college boys. She sends them in return, when requested, an autographed bosom and a printed slip stating that she was born in San Antonio, Tex., and educated...
Leonora Canwick enlists in the A. E. F. and get quite a bit older while she is trying to keep from the inquisitive people she meets the fact of her sex. The subject admits of any number of subtleties most of which are driven home with that quiet nicety of steam riveters working opposite your window early in the morning...
Though Wings Over Europe, by virtue of its lack of sex-appeal and the Wells-Vernian circumstances of its conversational plot, is a freak play, it is also of the kind called "profound." This means that its excitements are cerebral and that spectators, leaving the theatre in their cabs, will be aroused to the point of shouting each other down with explanations of its meanings and with speculations as to what each one would have done, had he or she been the luckless Lightfoot...