Word: sexless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...base in England and goes off to Scotland with Patches, a mousy, grey-eyed little WAAF. After a week of shacking up in the Loch Lomond country, Jerry finds himself desperately in love with Patches, desperately out of love with his "healthily beautiful, loving, young, vigorous, clear-eyed, innocent, sexless and inexperienced" fiancee back on Long Island.To straighten out this situation and break his engagement in a face-to-face encounter, he hops the Atlantic without papers, fails in his mission when his socialite parents beg him to change his mind. But back in England 24 hours later, Jerry sees...
...many years, several public-spirited organizations have been trying to save American kiddies from the insidious influences of comic books, gangster movies, and radio thriller serials. The main attack has centered on the funnies and films, because radio is sexless, and therefore harder to get a generally tolerant public excited about. But the kiddy serials are nevertheless riddled with the same sort of grotesque materials that parents and teachers regard with horror in other mediums. And they are just as fascinating...
With the possible exception of Margaret O'Brien, Joan Caulfield is Hollywood's most sexless female luminary. Whatever she lacks in personal appeal she also lacks in acting prowess and case in front of a camera, all of which makes her presence in "Welcome Stranger" highly depressing to Bing Crosby-Barry Fitzgerald purists. There is, however, enough of Crosby at his best to make the picture melodious and entertaining, while Fitzgerald commendably limits his concessions to quaintness, a restraint which keeps "Welcome Stranger," for the most part, from waxing mawkish...
...answer to Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick's statement [TIME, Feb. 3] that "audiences used to be largely . . . cranks who also liked folk dancing because it was pure and sexless," I step forward boldly to defend the thousands of folk dancers both men & women in the U.S. Lusty, earthy, folk dancing is as "pure" an expression of the people's simple joys as the "pure" tone Mr. Kirkpatrick clanks out of his antiquated instrument. ... If anything can be charged with the character of sexlessness, it is certainly the harpsichord, whose voice is hard and chill, and rather exemplifies suppressed desires...
Sweetheart had broken down the day before and the Chicoys had given up their beds to the passengers overnight. Most important and most irritated passengers were Mr. Pritchard, a corporation executive from Chicago; his wife; and their daughter, Mildred. Mr. Pritchard was neat, pompous and timid; Mrs. Pritchard sweet, sexless and tyrannical; Mildred hated them both...