Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have injured her popularity. Having decided to take a chance, Fox did more. It chose as a vehicle for Cinemactress Bow a story as crude as possible. Author Tiffany Thayer's Call Her Savage. As the heroine of this opus, Miss Bow is called upon to show the sexual glamour for which she is celebrated by beating a rattlesnake to death with a horsewhip, flaying a half-breed Indian, marrying a libertine (Monroe Owsley) and knocking him unconscious, blacking the eye of her husband's mistress (Thelma Todd), practicing prostitution, boxing the ears of her second fianc...
...Biological Laboratory, which was completed last year and is numbered among the outstanding institutions of its kind in the country, are two tests which using various forms of fungi as mediums, are of great general, as well as technical and scientific interest. One experiment, which deals with the sexual reproduction of fungi, is being conducted by Dr. F. L. Drayton, a National Research Fellow and L. H. Ames 3G. Dr. G. A. Ledingham, research assistant at the Laboratories, is in charge of the second test, and is investigating the nuclear division of certain species of fungi...
...Drayton and Ames have discovered several new and important facts, about certain types of fungi in their experiment. Nothing has been known until very recently about the sexual reproduction of fungi. Through their experiments these men have discovered that in the types of fungi they studied a single spore gives rise to a fungus plant, which produces both types of fungi they studied a single spore gives rise to fungus plant, which produces both types of reproductive organs. It is therefore hermaphroditic. But, the interesting point is that the fungus is both self-sterile and cross-fertile a condition which...
...like himself, is neurotic, tortured, and decadent. It is in the great piling up of character and detail that the overpowering effect is produced. The author knows, better than any other contemporary writer, the human mind; and he makes each character living and real. He has two primary interests: sexual perversion and social change. Few have had better subjects to show these than Proust in the Paris from 1890 till after the War, and he presents them with an amazing vividness...
Faithless will probably leave Miss Bankhead about where she was before. She has a more full-bodied role than in Thunder Below, Tarnished Lady, My Sin and The Devil and The Deep, and a better leading man (Robert Montgomery). Otherwise, the picture is in the Bankhead tradition, a solemn sexual mumbo-mumbo of wealth impoverished and beauty in distress...