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Word: sexed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court I don't blame you. How in hell do you think we can keep New Jersey on the map with you birds talking this way? Put some sex in it. Where's the Hog Lady...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

Princess Turandot. The English translation of the Russian translation of the Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, under the direction of Leo Bulgakov, becomes a beguiling bit of theatrical amusement. An Oriental Princess, the fable has it, would guard her ephemeral freedom from the male sex behind a hazard of riddles. Suitors failing to solve her prehistoric crossword puzzles lose their stupid heads. One young Prince not only guesses all the riddles, but makes Her Wilful Highness like him for it, as well. The feminine "shall I, shall I not" is woven into the fabric of a soundly constructed play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Theatre: Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...hundred, a thousand. . . . With the welling up of the radio craze he began to publish Radio News, the Radio Review and Radio InternacionaL Now this precursor of all "radio hugs" has gambled that the U. S. may have developed a new morality, may be ready to buy a sex magazine almost without sex appeal. The first issue of Your Body carried the intimation that the next copy may appear in "about six months," asked: "Would you care to see this [publication] appear as a monthly magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unsexing Sex | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...sample of the new "unsexed" sex literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unsexing Sex | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...stage storm of the season disrupts the serene domesticity of a Spanish household. From under the black clouds, into a country home, scurries a gipsy girl, fleeing from her man with a whip. The ladies of the household take her under their protection-foolishly, because the gipsy has more sex appeal than all the rest of the family put together. Within one year (intermission) she seduces the manservant, the son and the master of the house. And she does these things in the big parlor hall that gives on every room in the house. The ladies wax wroth. Blanche Yurka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 22, 1926 | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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