Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airplane accident suddenly introduces a bumbling nobleman and his pretty fiancee. The Eskimo handyman, worried about his boss's sex life, has meantime imported two native women from a distant mission. Then a sealer arrives with the young woman who jilted Dascom Dinsmore two years before. Broad as a snowshoe, the farce finally soars off into fantasy with a big double wedding. First-week audiences clapped their delight at Dennis King's fresh talent for comedy, were likewise appreciative when he took time out to sing a song in his best light opera manner...
...record for the measure and then only by sending the committee a letter. Dr. Charles Francis Potter, Manhattan humanist, helped laugh the bill to death by pointing out that its provision against a person exposing his body in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex, similarly exposed, would make it illegal for a woman to give birth to twin boys...
Childe Hassam, to whom went the Saltus Medal of Merit, only N. A. prize to be awarded regardless of nationality, age, sex, or subject matter, for that old post-impressionist's landscape Evening, Point Alien...
...name "Voice of Experience" Taylor adopted about seven years ago when he was already well known as a broadcaster on marriage problems. So successful was his booming voice, his "clean handling of sex problems that he now employs 29 private secretaries, all male, to answer his intimate correspondence. In addition to 5,000 broadcasts, Taylor has had time to write 120 pamphlets on such miscellaneous subjects as "Facts About Fruits" (A-19), "Why Be Unique? (B-11), "Insomnia" (C-8), "Why Take Your Own Life?" (C-10), "The Nudist Fad" (E-8), "Feminine Shapeliness" (F-14), "War of the Sexes...
...bother to remember her at all, as a pretty young girl whose bruised body, with veronal in the liver, was washed ashore at Long Beach, N. Y. one day in June four years ago (TIME, June 29, 1931). Partly because of her incredible name, partly because of her spectacular sex life, the Press quickly picked up all that was left of Starr Faithfull and gave it to the nation as a hot weather sensation. With the mystery of the girl's death still unsolved, the story eventually collapsed. But newspaper publishers had not heard the last of Starr Faithfull...