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Word: eroticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, Betty Grable has to wear a few clothes; in fact, during the French court scenes, she has to wear a hoop skirt. Such superfluous drapery is the worst sort of nuisance to this particular bundle of joy, for gentlemen, those pictures you've seen don't lie. She provides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/15/1939 | See Source »

Dull indeed is the author who cannot get some good laughs, provoke an occasional shudder, excite a few mildly erotic curiosities, inspire a self-congratulatory mood, in a book about African tribesmen. No dullard, Author Elspeth Huxley, a cousin-by-marriage of Novelist Aldous, has packed into Red Strangers well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Man's Burden | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Highest Paid managing editor in the U. S. is the News's Harvey Deuell, who last year drew a salary of $140,000. The managing editor of the News has to com press into one-fourth as much space enough news to keep the paper competitive with the bulky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 1,848,320 of Them | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

>"The Lunatic Narcissus" reveals a bare-breasted girl, her face caged with roses, her image multiplied by mirrors. > "The Beach of Gala Salvador" exhibits, against a Dali landscape embellished with exploding giraffes, many a famed surrealist emblem: the erotic white gramophone with a woman's high-heeled foot coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As You Enter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

"All my instincts and most of my intelligence incline me toward conservatism. I distrust any program which does not carefully take into account the nature of man. I believe that fundamental, biological inequality is a fact of nature. I also believe that the instinct to preserve society is one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cartwheel Girl | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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