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Word: sexuality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest will fifty years hence be as unread as the Congressional Record. Several things are wrong with Anderson, to his mind. He is to obsessed with sex, and sex perversion. "Winesburg, Ohio" was saturated with people, ranging from the philosopher who does not understand his own sexual frustration and so is writing a book to show that all the world is Christ and is suffering on the Cross, to the hotel proprietor's wife who, after a life of scrubbed floors and emptied cuspidors, is soother in the arms of death by the kisses of an understanding doctor. The book...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: Mystery --- Fantasy | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Discussion and advocacy of free sexual relations both before and after marriage is an enterprise that good taste and a sense of propriety suggest should be staged elsewhere than before a mixed audience in a co-educational institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Take a Bath | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...while dog-owners led their charges, with some embarrassment, into "exercise" enclosures differentiated with an eye to sexual segregation, the judging continued. Then, on the last night of the show, the great spectacle began. Five judges came to judge five dogs. Each dog had been adjudged the best in each of five groups-sporting, working, terrier, toy, and non-sporting. One of the five, the judges would select as the best dog in the whole show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putting on the Dog | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Thing", it has a cast of six or seven men and one woman, in open defiance of all the best books of dramatic technique--by ladies who have written pageants for the Cope Valley Community Players--which claim that the female must appear in strength numerical as well as sexual. Walking in beauty from out the wings is supposed to add that intangible repondez s'il vous plait without which no galleries will be filled. We all know now what a lot of nasty feminist propaganda this is. Give Cecil Dixon the eyes wistful and blue, and riding breeches that...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: A GOOD WOMAN KNOWS HER BUSINESS | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

...irritating, having settled oneself for an evening of keeping hair and scalp connected, to have it descend into the customary muck of sex-repressions and eroticism. Mr. Cline commences by peopling his hall of horrors with supernatural terrors, and ends with a heavy-handed accent on the sexual...

Author: By J.e. BARNETT ., | Title: A Page of American Fiction | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

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