Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which permits prosecution of a book rather than a bookseller. Most interesting exhibit: a realistic, life-size photographic cut-out of sexy Authoress Kathleen Winsor. Though the prosecutor thundered, the judge, a man of 65, averred: "The book acts like a soporific rather than an aphrodisiac. While conducive to sleep it is not conducive to a desire to sleep with a member of the opposite sex." His verdict: Not guilty...
...does: like hypnotism, it may occasionally do wonders for a neurotic patient who believes he has been helped. Doctors like to cite a chiropractic patient's testimonial once quoted by a Chicago Tribune columnist: "Before taking chiropractic and electric treatments, I was so nervous that no one could sleep with me. After six treatments, anybody can sleep with...
...friend: "Tomorrow my narrative will be finished. ... I can hardly believe my own ears when I say [it]. All my wicked villains will be duly rewarded ... all my models of usefulness and intelligence will be fitly punished . . . all my stupid people, including my readers, will be put to sleep for a thousand years...
BOSTON, MARCH 10-"Forever Amber" was freed to Massachusetts readers by Superior Court judge Francis J. Donahue who ruled the Kathleen Winzor novel "not obscene" but said it was "conducive to sleep...
Today he said the reading "required several hours of my time every day for seven days to got through it" and added of the book "while it is conducive to sleep it is not conducive to a desire to sleep with a member of the opposite...