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Word: sexes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abnormal. Professor Read finds in the key to the true Wordsworth, the well of his poetic emotion. Professor Herford, on the other hand, looks upon the life of the poet with the cold, green eye of pedantic scholarship. He manages to maintain his equilibrium as far as Wordsworth's sex life is concerned, but his contributions as a critic are as negligible as they are traditional...

Author: By H. A. R., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/3/1931 | See Source »

...sufficiently adult to study a book on connubial hygiene, Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey of Manhattan decided last month. Thereupon Putnam's rushed the printing and, last week, published Marie Carmichael Stopes's Married Love- the first of her eight monographs on sex activity. Professionally she is a palaeobotanist and an authority on coal. In 1918 she married Humphrey Verdon Roe, who with his brother Sir Alliott Verdon Roe developed the Avro biplane. They live in Surrey with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Connubial Hygiene | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Birth control is nearing the status of a recognized procedure in preventive and curative medicine. Knowledge of contraceptives is also widely disseminated and the question of their use has become one of great social importance. . . . There is general agreement also that sex union between husbands and wives as an expression of mutual affection, without relation to procreation, is right. This is recognized by the Scriptures, by all branches of the Christian Church, by social and medical science, and by the good sense and idealism of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestant Birth Control | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...Moon, the other attraction, begins as a bit of lusty Russian sex drama, with what might be called some very frank border ditties and conversation. But it dwindles off into a good old American musical comedy. Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett are the musicians and the direction is truly comical...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/28/1931 | See Source »

...married four years ago; a son; in Cannes, France. Some months ago Sir Hari made "a large bet" that his expected offspring would be a male. Terms of the bet did not forbid Sir Hari & Wife to employ the yoga method (mental concentration) for producing offspring of the sex desired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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