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Word: sexiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always the handsomest male which is the sexiest. Among Hollywood actors she picked George Raft as scoring high in sex personality, "But if I just look at a man they think it's something else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mae West Tells a Few Things to Reporters After Arriving In Boston | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

Napi. Saxons imagine the Gauls to be the sexiest people; the Gauls modestly tender the palm to the Ottomans. It is natural, therefore, that Playwright Julius Berstl, a German, should have pictured Napoleon as a lecherous little character beloved by many beautiful women. It is also natural that the dramatist should have imagined that any other Frenchman who looked exactly like Napoleon would possess the same endearing attributes. The other Frenchman in Herr Berstl's play is small, goatlike Ernest Truex, who was last seen stamping around and fidgeting for Hortence Alden in Lysistrata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...successful series of publishing ventures, assisted by his brothers Roscoe and (the late) Harvey. The first, True Confessions, began by giving actual confessions of criminals and other big figures in the news (e.g. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw), but later turned to the usual anonymous-girl-gone-wrong narrative. At its sexiest stage it claimed 400,000 circulation, but a mistaken (and temporary) effort to "clean it up" under the name of Fawcett's nearly ruined the book. It is doing well again (230,000). Judge Ben Lindsey is a contributor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whiz-Banger | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

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