Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there hung a sign in the New York World office, warning all to tell Winchell nothing. But somehow, Winchell learns. Those interested to know who and his wife are expecting offspring find out in the Graphic's "Your Broadway and Mine" every Monday. When the offspring arrives, its sex is immediately disclosed. When Gossiper Winchell is flayed for a statement, he says "sorry" the next day-but only when serious consequences are threatened. Otherwise, he says nothing...
...Government. . . . Whatever tends to lessen the willingness of citizens to discharge their duty to bear arms . . . detracts from the strength and safety of the government. The influence of conscientious objectors ... is apt to be more detrimental than their mere refusal to bear arms. The fact that, by reason of sex, age or other cause they may be unfit to serve, does not lessen their purpose or power to influence others...
...Dennett, fined $300 for mailing her "obscene" pamphlet, The Sex Side of Life, appealed the conviction. She said that she would go to jail rather than...
Protagonists of unrestricted sex education gave Mrs. Dennett a mass meeting in Manhattan. Dr. Edward Loughborough Keyes, president of the American Social Hygiene Association, presided. Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson of the New York Academy of Medicine, energetic in maternal health work, resolved that some permanent agency be formed to study and act on sex education, sex literature. The mass meeting approved unanimously, except for Canon William Sheafe Chase of Christ Church, Brooklyn. He, who had abetted the conviction of Mrs. Dennett, sat in the gallery silent, watchful, preparing to continue his denunciation in debate and lecture...
...April 8), many a scoffer wondered how Publisher Macfadden, previously more interested in short skirts than in short selling, in swimming pools rather than in stock pools, could successfully turn to the Facts of Finance from the Facts of Life. Yet well was the transition made. There is no sex in the Investment News. There are no cosmographs. It is a tabloid in size only. It sells for 10 cents per copy...