Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine little girls aged 9 to 12 had been voluntarily submitting to indecencies at the hands of a 56-year-old plumber and a garage proprietor, 64. In Brooklyn, a 37-year-old ex-convict, only seven months out of Sing Sing where he had been sent for a sex crime, was sentenced to 25-years-to-life for taking two girls, 8 and 10, to a cinema and carnally molesting them. Indicted in Brooklyn was another ex-convict, 49, and twice convicted of statutory offences against children. He had strangled and assaulted an 8-year-old girl...
With these appalling examples of pedophilia, the lust of mature men for prepubescent children, spreading daily in the Press, it looked to laymen as if a national wave of sex crimes against children was in full surge. In the opinion of competent medical authorities, however, the number of cases of this kind of psychosis that reached print was purely accidental, although both the older Brooklyn convict and the Staten Island house painter declared that their crimes had been suggested by newspaper accounts of similar assaults earlier in the summer...
...little has been done in big cities to protect children from a very prevalent type of lunatic: and it spurred the police of New York and Chicago, at least, to get busy and do something about it. In Chicago State's Attorney Thomas Courtney hurriedly organized a central Sex Bureau to keep up-to-date records of all men accused of molesting children. Whenever a new case is reported, detectives are to study the records, social service workers observe social causes, psychiatrists give mental examinations, and physicians search for venereal and other diseases. At the end of an investigation...
...Distinctly not for the squeamish." Lena, by a Prix Goncourt winner (Captain Conan), is a War romance on the order of A Farewell to Arms, plus the sinister violence of plot inseparable from Balkan settings. Readers who stubbornly refuse to humor Balkan settings may call it merely macabre sex melodrama skilfully made up to pass as an indictment...
...accuracy and ingeniousness of theory, publishers as predictors of best-sellers are about on a par with those obstetricians who attempt to predetermine the sex of their clients' babies. Because Anthony Adverse and Gone With the Wind were big novels, publishers have lately favored what might be called the Weights & Measures Theory. This week Publisher Macmillan again subscribed to this theory with the announcement that And So-Vic-toria weighed 7! Ib. in typescript, ran to over 1,600 pages in manuscript, 618 pages in print, and was going to be a successor to Gone With The Wind. Critics...