Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made any pretense at listing all the pastimes at which Miss Didrikson is about as expert as anyone of her sex, it would have to include weightlifting, wrestling, fencing, croquet, field hockey, soccer, polo, shooting, rowing, skating, bowling, pool, lacrosse, cooking. She holds the women's world record for throwing a baseball. She got her first newspaper publicity when, in a Dallas store "One look at its trim beauty and you know it has class." two years ago, she hoisted a 50-lb. weight over head. A physical freak in her ability to co-ordinate her actions with...
...Bulgaria, is grand old Mary. In Prague last week the Czechoslovakian Supreme Court made name-history, handed down a decision barring Czechoslovaks from having "girls' names" if they are male-and vice versa. "Every given name," ruled the Supreme Court, "must indicate with clarity the individual's sex." Cited by the Supreme Court as particularly obnoxious and explicitly barred to Czechoslovak males are all combinations of names containing "Mary," such as the common "Erich Maria" and "Ludwig Maria." Reason why so many parents name their sons "Mary" is of course that by this means they place him under...
...Never before has any attempt of mine at an approach to the beautiful sex met with such an energetic rebuff; even should perchance such have ever been the case, then certainly not by so many all at once...
...investigated it and it converted him. What he tells will mostly be old stuff to Buchmanites, but onlooking sinners will welcome this thoroughgoing if diffuse report on the Methodism of our day. Buchmanism, much more respectable than it was a few years ago, is apparently much less preoccupied by sex-sensationalism. Says Russell. "The words purity and impurity I heard occasionally at . . . Group meetings. Sometimes the word lust. But though I have attended hundreds of Group meetings, I do not remember hearing anything in bad taste...
...itself with a single exhibition of its star but must with unparalleled magnanimity, offer him to the audience twice, once as T.K. Blair, the nominee for the presidency of the land, and again as the mountebank who is hired as a double to make up for the lack of sex appeal. The audience won't tire of its favorite and the producers haven't used him over-abundantly. The double exposure escapes the cleverest eye and the exposition of two characters will hold the attention of the most indifferent. And they've put in Jimmy Durante to gush forth exuberantly...