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Word: sexed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain Biology student, unable to locate the book he was hunting for, approached the liberarian at the Biological Laboratories and asked, "Do you have "Sex and Internal Secretions?" "What do you think?" replied the librarian, a saucy little brunette...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

...knows his job. Every cook makes a contribution to the broth. Playwright Abbott provides a sound book (least brilliant part of the show) ; Director Abbott, whirlwind direction that keeps it moving, moving, moving; Comic Jimmy Savo contributes wild-eyed dimwit mischief; Fat Girl Wynn Murray, dishpan antics and Amazonian sex threats; Lorenz Hart, brash, bawdy, witty lyrics (best line: She was so chaste that it made her very nervous); Rodgers, a gay, bright lilting score, never better than it is in This Can't Be Love, Sing for Your Supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...their own as the Group Theatre. Directing the new enterprise were Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg. Summers were spent in the country rehearsing, refining, inhaling the Group aroma. The Group, so the story goes, played father to its children, studied their habits, even investigated their sex lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: White Hope | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...black mustache, was "vice commissar" of a secret group calling itself "C?C" (Curiosity Club). Its members, 24 boys, nine girls, all wore a uniform of black shirt, black breeches and black boots. Male members also were expected to grow mustaches. Meeting in members' houses, they discussed sex, atheism and a program they distilled from Plato, Aristotle and Edward Bellamy's Utopia. Specific points in their program: less restrictive marriage laws, more sex education, a plan (a kind of first cousin to "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday") to give everybody cash certificates to be spent within a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Odd Oklahoma | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...minor characters who drift in & out of the plotless, amorphous story, Dorothy Richardson is both eloquent and clear. But writing about Miriam's tormented relations with men, who repel and fascinate her, she is so obscure that the reader is left guessing. In the four volumes of Pilgrimage sex never once rears its ugly little head. Every critical experience in Miriam's life occurs off stage, between books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cagey Subconsciousness | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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