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Word: sexes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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More promising as pulpit topics for the winter ahead were a dozen cognate resolutions on marriage and sex problems. In part these controversial resolutions read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lambeth Conference, Ended | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...Functions of Sex are a god-given factor in human life and are essentially noble and creative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lambeth Conference, Ended | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

Meantime, New York's police kept hunting, and New York's press mourned the end of a ten-day wonder story. However, the romantic aspect of 3X diminished when Misses May and Ring revealed that his motive with them had been sex at pistol point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Petterkiller | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Miss Tashman contributes some highly insinuating sex appeal which was rivaled by the considerable expenditure of the same commodity by Miss Dorsay. Mr. McLaglen himself plays a rather negative part in the midst of these pyro-technics, but he manages to come through in the end with his good humor and incidentally the fifty thousand dollars...

Author: By H. B., | Title: Cinema-:- THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER -:- Drama | 6/10/1930 | See Source »

Finding new thrills for the masses who read their fiction in the newspapers is a taxing task for feature editors. Sex stories always sell, but detective stories, War stories, even gangster stories are becoming "old stuff." Last week, William Randolph Hearst's New York American, ever mindful of the classics, solved its feature problem by simply beginning to reprint that 50-year-old saga, originally printed in 64 nickel novels, Deadwood Dick, Prince of the Road by Edward L. Wheeler. Readers past middle-age, to whom the yellow paperbacked books were forbid den in childhood, fondly renewed acquaint ance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prince of the Road | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

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