Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sex. Firm-chinned Chairman Avery Brundage of the U. S. Olympic Committee got himself into the spotlight by putting Mrs. Jarrett off the U. S. team last fortnight. Last week busy Mr. Brundage had equally momentous things to deal with. First he read the Press a telegram from one Gregory Vigeant Jr. of Kansas City, which said: "Mrs. Jarrett's example to young Americans is deplorable." Next he announced that two boxers, Joe Church and Negro Howell King, had been dismissed from the team for "homesickness"' because "homesickness is a contagious disease." Finally, as a grand climax...
...Brundage, at his first Committee meeting, roundly recommended that all women athletes entered in the Olympics be subjected to a thorough physical examination to make sure they were really 100% female. Reason: two athletes who recently competed in European track events as women were later transformed into men by sex operations...
...steady green light and green paper or walls should be in the bedrooms of young male children as this color raises the male sex urge to a higher level...
...cinema reproduce any of his American Magazine detective stories he could scarcely have invented a better hero than Nero Wolfe. Wolfe is so sedentary that he never ventures outdoors. His only hobby is growing orchids. Beer-guzzling has given him an enormous paunch. Thus deprived of action and sex appeal, Meet Nero Wolfe overcomes its handicaps surprisingly well, thanks to an effective performance by Edward Arnold and to the presence of Lionel Stander as Wolfe's dazed but tireless assistant...
Oppenheim books taste of aristocratic beauties, international spies, missing jewels, noblemen in disguise, lurking assassins. They have a spice, but just a spice, of sex. And through them all trickles, a rich essence of good food and drink. The latest Oppenheim is no exception to the Oppenheim rule. Reduced to its crude elements of malt, sugar and salt, it might seem a lifeless and unlikely concoction. But to Oppenheim addicts it is a thoroughly lively and likely affair...