Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Broadway has lately blazed with headlines: "Sex Plays Raided," "Police Rout Vice Show," etc. etc. What actually occurred was more polite. By arrangement with the managements, detectives called in police limousines for the actors, actresses, producers and authors of The Captive, Sex and The Virgin Man. They called after the evening performances, like well-behaved escorts. In night court, pleased judges accepted packets of bail. Then everyone posed for flashlight pictures. The hearings were vaguely postponed. Day courts furnished the theatres with injunctions against further "persecution...
...Moscow ruled that the murderer was of completely sound mind, and had acted without malice. He was sentenced to nine years of solitary confinement. Meanwhile questions loomed: "Could Sergei Slovochotov have chosen between killing his fiancee and kissing her? Could Zina Jukova have chosen between experimenting with her sex appeal and keeping still? Were they free-willed tragic fools, or was their fate predestined and so neither comedy nor tragedy...
...with immaculate gloves and instruments, must probe and lay bare the infections of the flesh, that it may be sterilized and heal. Recently, at the height of the Browning-Peaches orgy of pornography (TIME, Feb. 7), conscience-stricken editors tried hypocritically to explain that in probing into the sex life of a babbitt-Iecher they were acting as "surgeons to the public mind." The false hypocrisy of this excuse appeared, last week...
...fact that every newspaper in New York had to print the details of ... the Browning case . . . proves beyond all possible argument that an alarmingly large number of people everywhere have distorted and perverted ideas. . . . Experts . . . state that there are several million sex perverts in this country...
...those who are entirely normal and who are fully informed on all subjects appertaining to sex, the Browning case is boresome...