Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down as a freak along with Feminine Reader Graves and the rank and file of other feminine TIME readers who do not care if they are maligned so long as TIME subscriptions are not denied the weaker sex. My story herewith: Nearly three years ago at the time of my marriage I had my subscription transferred to my new name and address. At that time my husband and mother-in-law were reading the _______and _________ respectively. Of course many arguments ensued, in which we each tried to prove the newsworthiness of our choice. As the weeks passed I found...
...pale paraphrases of barroom jokes, his irrelevant elaborations of smoking-room mythology, are as frankly dramatic as "Mr. Jones's Night Off." Most famed is the ballad of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon"-a wretchedly voluptuous fish who said to herself: "There must be more to this sex-life than just swimming over each other's eggs." She put a badge on her right shoulder saying "I will share," paid a visit to Fanny Bored, the world's oldest mermaid, finally had an uncomfortable liaison on a barnacle bed, with an octopus...
...last new hormone of the pituitary, possibly identified by Dr. Evans, apparently magnifies the effect of one of the female sex hormones and seems to have a sex-stimulating effect...
...thyroid received little attention at last fortnight's meetings, apparently because its physiology is broadly understood and because the number of goitre cases in the country is shrinking (TIME. May 29). Nor did the sex glands per se come up for much discussion. The pituitary predominated over...
...pleasant reassurance from detecting-in persons with whom they can identify themselves-noble motives for bad deeds. The fact that it is completely insincere does not imply that it was inefficiently written, by Anita Loos, directed, by Sam Wood, or acted, by Hollywood's foremost specialists in sex. It contains a few definitely first-rate shots-such as the one of Eddie, when he gets back from jail for the first time, jumping out of a taxi and glancing up to the windows of his apartment to see if anyone is there...