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Word: sexes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What becomes of youngsters convicted under the Mann Act for their interstate sex experiments, of prankish urchins who break open a freight car or filch stamps from a rural post office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Accidents | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...Those who will not be interested in me after my marriage will be insignificant in number. ... It wasn't sex appeal over the radio, it was just musical ability. . . . I've just signed a $150,000 contract for the coming year. Does that look like lessened popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 20, 1931 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...Henry Gauvreau of the Mirror.To him it is the difference between outmoded pornography and the beginning of a new "Tabloidia" in which he implicitly believes. He was the porno-Graphic's first managing editor. He stuck with it for five years until, sick of dishing up nothing but sex, scandal, crime, faked news & faked pictures to an illiterate circulation, he quit and went to the Mirror (TIME. July 22, 1929). There he could print at least some legitimate news along with sex and crime. There he was permitted to write a .column called "Now and Then," on the pattern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editor Bares All | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Laughing Sinners (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the title given to a cinemas-culated version of Torch Song, the play by Kenyon Nicholson which was the first outstanding success of the past Manhattan season. In Torch Song Author Nicholson played about with a case of mistaken identity between sex and religion. He showed his heroine joining the Salvation Army when deserted by a traveling salesman, later having a reunion with her lover when she tried to convert him. This aspect of the story has been overlooked in the cinema, which tells a plain and not particularly stirring case-history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 13, 1931 | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...certainly the dizziest looking sirens one could imagine. In rags and tatters, holes in their coarse cotton stockings, torn, heeless shoes, their dresses ripped and burst, dirty-they can't get soap to wash their faces and hands-and no cosmetics to make up. About as much sex appeal as a busted down tractor, but somehow they grab off the sailor lads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Caterpillars, Sirens, Valuta | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

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