Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some day soon. A roly-poly lawyer named Joseph Goldstein sprang to her aid. Under his guidance she filed a taxpayer's suit in New York Supreme Court to oust the Earl, on grounds that he was an alien and an advocate of sexual immorality...
Father Divine, who professed to deprecate sexual intercourse, caused the Browns to part. He explained: "When I wrote the Bible, I didn't mean 'Who I have joined together let no man put asunder.' I meant this-that who I had joined together let no man put your body asunder." When the Browns met thereafter, they greeted each other politely with "Peace, Mr. Onward" and "Peace, Miss Rebecca." But they got fed up with this kind of heaven. Finally Rebecca Grace asked for her money back-$3,937, she said it totaled. Father Divine's reply...
...record about Spain than a vibrant radio voice. It also did not sound overmuch like what Hemingway had written. In Adapter Glazer's hands, it was less a personal memoir of Spain than a general tale of war. There was more drama in it, but more melodrama. Its sexual passion had been transformed into romantic love, its psychological conflicts swollen into moral crises...
...eminent Briton had a past. And a lurid list of exploits it is, one than should automatically disqualify him as an instructor of the pure and innocent American youth. For the Earl has been married three times, divorced on charges of adultery, and has specifically defended in his writings sexual relations "as a purely private matter which does not concern the state or the neighbors." What is to become of us, with this "propagandist against morality" on the loose, fumed the New York divine, lifting his hands in palsied dread...
...professor and department head at the College of the City of New York (TIME. March 4), Bishop Manning got out his snickersnee, wrote a hot letter to the newspapers. Quoting from his Lordship's writings ("Outside human desires there is no moral standard. ... In the absence of children, sexual relations are a purely private matter which does not concern either the state or the neighbors.. ..") The plain-born high-church Bishop asked: "What is to be said of colleges and universities which hold up before our youth as a reputable teacher of philosophy, and as an example...