Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dynamite in that famous editorial was the little word, "sex." Two months later Mr. Bok soothed his sensitive readers with: "The forbidden word in this magazine will remain forbidden until conditions of absolute necessity force it to become otherwise." Mr. Bok permitted sex to rear its ugly head again in January 1909 when he published a full-page article by blind Helen Keller giving medical statistics of the results of syphilis and gonorrhea, but not mentioning either disease by name...
...vertebrae in the back of the rats which Dr. MacDonald banged correspond to those in the small of a woman's back where sympathetic nerves emerge from the spinal cord to connect with the sex organs. "Lesions" in other spinal areas do not produce barrenness...
...were modern trends in education and modern trends in womanhood. In many a testy paragraph he inveighed against 1) the stupidity of school superintendents and pedagogs, who overtaxed their pupils' brains with useless study; 2) the brazen influence of women who demanded equal rights for an inferior sex. So copious and infuriated did Mr. See become that at length he composed a book, published it in 1928 with a bitter title: Schools. Sample thoughts...
...California." That his client's share-Mae-West's-wealth movement might be halted by California's community property law proviso that a separated wife's earnings are her own was poohed by Mr. Szatkus' Los Angeles lawyer who said the clause was discriminatory sex legislation and might be found unconstitutional...
...straight throwback to Kipling and Jack London- a story involving the hazards of convoying merchant ships during the War, with a hero who, through duty and red-hot blood rather than patriotism, faces death as manfully as love. Added to this familiar pattern are modern touches of swearing, sex and disillusionment. As a result Deep Soundings plays hob with the tradition which demands that adventure fiction, no matter how tough its heroes, must preserve a cleanliness seldom found elsewhere in life or literature. As an example of the one serious book which every adventure writer intends to write some...