Word: gender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chance of kicking off. Artists rejoice to die, especially for a crowd. The feature this afternoon will be one of the best drilled male choruses in the country. It is the greatest assembly of stars ever perpetrated without a revival. This is so much the feature that the feminine gender has been totally neglected. Anyone who hopes for tiller of Hoffman girls will have to take them, not a bad idea. Even if it seems extravagant to take them, ask them anyhow, as they probably have a conflicting matinee...
Billie. If there was any ambiguity of gender in the title of George Cohan's most recent American musical play it was removed when pretty Polly Walker, in a fetching fluster, confessed: "That's my name, Billie, and my daddy's was the same, Billie." Her confession was made on first meeting Jackson (in the previously popular non-musical version known as "Broadway") Jones. He had inherited money from his uncle and Billie was his uncle's secretary. For commendable reasons, Billie wished Jackson not to sell the avuncular corporation, a chewing gum one; she urged...
Michael Strogoff. The French film impresses one as being very like The Perils Of Pauline telescoped into one sitting (in Siberia) and inverted into the masculine gender. The hero, as told in Jules Verne's novel, is solemnly commissioned by the Tsar Alexander to take a message from Moscow to the Grand Duke in Irkutsk. After encountering the Tartar hordes single-handed for no good reason, Mike arrives in time to kill the archvillain with his bare hands. The motivation puerile, the photography clumsy, it has, however, some good horse-backing...
...Your remark [TIME, Sept. 6, p. 6]. "fat and lean Filipino females . . . ambling about naked" is not only bad diction but creates an entirely erroneous mental impression. Filipino is the masculine gender and the word applied to "females" should be 'Filipina"-further there are no adult Filipinas who amble about naked, particularly in the coastal towns, and my experience with these natives since 1900 is that even the so-called wild or "head hunter" tribes of the interior are quite modest...
...state with all sincerity that conditions here are far from what they should be both in food and the price of food. Furthermore, it can suggest that somewhere near the Yard pleasant rooms, fed from some central kitchen could serve meals planned by capable dieticians, perhaps of the feminine gender, for modern man has a certain robust fear of dietetics, meals which could be eaten in comparative quiet among friends--then there would be fewer haggard undergraduates, and there would be less truth in the myth that a graduate student is a rare, rare bird. It is high time that...