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Word: woman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Mead will be the first woman speaker ever to appear at a Law School Forum. The program will be moderated by Professor Kirtley Mather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Forum to Discuss U. S. Sex Codes Tonight | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

...prominent Boston society woman" has refused to buy tickets for the Dramatic Club's forthcoming production of "Amphitryon 38" unless certain sexy lines, which she considers too risque for her two daughters and herself, are deleted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex Remains in Amphitryon Despite Socialite's Demand | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

...declined to reveal the identity of the woman, but declared it has refused to submit to censorship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex Remains in Amphitryon Despite Socialite's Demand | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

...Maine woman, a widow of 45, and she lived alone. When she had made up her mind to commit suicide, she laid her chin on the muzzle of a 12-gauge shotgun and pulled the trigger. The charge tore through her tongue, palate and nose, went on through the front part of the brain and out through the forehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shotgun Surgery | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Neurotic Kultur. So far as his biographer-friend knows, Adrian had but one sexual experience with a woman, a prostitute; but it leaves him with a disease that alternately retards and heightens his work and leaves him a senile wreck at the end. Perhaps the best and most readable section of Faustus describes Adrian's years in a rustic Bavarian retreat near Munich. Mann's description of Munich's cultural and pseudo-intellectual crowd between wars, and their stiff-necked, neurotic Kultur helps explain how an Austrian fanatic got them to eat out of his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Case History of a Genius | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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