Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miscast half-caste, Dolores del Rio, shaking her sex-appeal in all directions, presses vigorously through the plot and against Walter Pidgeon the leading man. To her able acting in What Price Glory, such a specialized performance is a disappointing sequel. Nonetheless, it is sufficient to give an otherwise almost worthless picture some value beyond the pornographic...
...when the weaker sex so universally expresses admiration of the "cave man" while at the same time upholding that great American slogan, "It's off, because it's out," the problem is an alarming one. The question as to whether the tea-sipping students of Radcliffe, Sargent, and Miss Leslie's should abandon, as they threaten to do, the debated territory of the fashionable tea shoppe to their enemies, the hairy-legged racquetmen, offers possibilities of stone throwing. The female crusader against legs laments a lack of modesty; and the male defendant retorts that "people who wear sheer hose should...
...evening, when the Harvard Debating Union holds the fourth of its series of regular bi-weekly meetings in the Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock. The question is: "Resolved. That this house believes that newspapers should be restrained by legislative enactment from publishing murder trials and sex cases...
...long hours of cerebration. For it is often the one time that any literary production of the author appears in print. It is the single monument of his pictorial career, and on this attempt he triumphs or fails. Indeed, rarely does a mother who has been disappointed in the sex of her first born experience such difficulties in naming her child as the chairman of groups applying for senior dormitories in devising a witty psuedonym...
...Glenn writes about four such women; one is Mrs. Habersham, who, as she approaches old age, is entirely concerned with matters of sex which she should have outgrown; Mrs. Habersham resides with her elder and married daughter Alice May, who is stupider, prettier, lazier than her mother; visiting Alice May are her two aunts, Sallie and Natalie, both quite credibly prurient and unattractive. The entrance of Laura Habersham, Mrs. Habersham's second daughter, who has so far forgotten her Southern breeding as to become the mother of a child without wedlock, strikes her mother, sister and aunts like...