Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reference to it. He then switched into a furious castigation of Soviet Russia and made this glancing reference to birth control: "Many regard the rich results of Science as being all-sufficing. This has brought about a loosening of the ties of marriage and restraint upon the impulses of sex. Well may we ask-'Whither is this drift carrying us?' " As the Archbishop of Canterbury was by this time getting definitely a "bad press," the sagacious Primate of All England gave a most sumptuous feast to British journalists in his Lambeth Palace, regaling them with pheasant and choice...
...field such of pure speculation, frankly offered as much Hayelock Ellis, Britain's foremost learned commentator on sex, was the following limited press interview: "I have always had the opinion, due to Edwards's quite boyish appearance, that he is in some way different from most other men, but not in any way known to me. But to me it is obvious. A man slightly different from most men-and I think that is a reasonable assumption in his case-has difficulty in finding a woman to his taste." Mr. Ellis said he spoke to Edward VIII...
...good of morals and a liberal policy Harvard has repealed its "Two Women" Parietal rule, and has declared that it considers any third party, "sex unspecified," capable of handling the chaperonage end of feminine visits to the Houses. "If there is to be only one woman in a party," says the rule, the student "shall agree that a third person be present during the visit...
...fumed at "the steaming ordures of the stage." The Country Wife is generally conceded to be the best of William Wycherley's four major comedies. It holds up dullness as the worst of sins, wit as the greatest virtue. If it preaches anything at all, it is that sex is, at bottom, a laughing matter. The play was revived on Broadway by Augustin Daly, in a heavily bowdlerized version, 52 years...
...women are apt to tell before the intrigue, as men after it, and so show themselves the vainer sex...